Can’t bar poll candidates for having more than 2 kids: SC
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi 26.02.2019
: The Supreme Court on Monday refused to entertain a plea seeking to bar those with more than two children from government jobs and disqualifying them from contesting elections.
A bench of Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Sanjiv Khanna said a constitutional court could not pass such an order and dismissed the plea. The petition was filed by BJP leader Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay pleading the court to intervene and pass order to deal with the menace of population explosion in the country.
“This court has held that the problem of population explosion is a national and global issue for which priority in policy-oriented legislation, wherever needed, is necessary. Legislative measures to check the menace of growing population is valid. A provision that a person who has more than two children is not qualified to hold office in a local authority was, therefore, held to be valid by the apex court,” the petitioner said..
“The two-child norm for contesting local body elections has been adopted by some states like Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Odisha, Rajasthan and Haryana, which has yielded very positive results in reducing population growth in those states. Therefore, such norm should be adopted by all the states to implement the population control policy to bring fruitful results,” the petitioner said.
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi 26.02.2019
: The Supreme Court on Monday refused to entertain a plea seeking to bar those with more than two children from government jobs and disqualifying them from contesting elections.
A bench of Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Sanjiv Khanna said a constitutional court could not pass such an order and dismissed the plea. The petition was filed by BJP leader Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay pleading the court to intervene and pass order to deal with the menace of population explosion in the country.
“This court has held that the problem of population explosion is a national and global issue for which priority in policy-oriented legislation, wherever needed, is necessary. Legislative measures to check the menace of growing population is valid. A provision that a person who has more than two children is not qualified to hold office in a local authority was, therefore, held to be valid by the apex court,” the petitioner said..
“The two-child norm for contesting local body elections has been adopted by some states like Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Odisha, Rajasthan and Haryana, which has yielded very positive results in reducing population growth in those states. Therefore, such norm should be adopted by all the states to implement the population control policy to bring fruitful results,” the petitioner said.
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