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What The Chaupal Teaches -Pragya Singh

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published Published on Dec 19, 2015   modified Modified on Dec 19, 2015
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Haryana’s new, ‘progressive’ panchayat election rules skewers the chances of women and the marginalised

In rural Haryana, last year’s drought-hit fields are finally giving way to the verdant yellow and green of mustard, but the people are restive, even angry. All along the glittering 250-km highway that connects Rohtak with Nuh—Haryana’s west and east, also its best and worst—a wedge has been driven between the rich and the poor by the changes brought by the Manohar Lal Khattar-led BJP gov­ernment in the panchayat polls law.

One new condition in particular has everybody agitated—that every panchayat must consist only of the school-educated. Which means the ‘illiterates’ will have little say from now on. And even the Supreme Court has been no help—it dashed the hopes of many a political aspirant in Har­yana’s villages when it backed the state’s amendment on the grounds that only the educated can distinguish “good from bad”.

The law, described as a “body blow to justice” by MP and former panchayati raj minister Mani Shankar Aiyar, is resented for MLAs and MPs are excluded from such limitations. The apex court, with one stroke, disenfranchised “half the women, 68 per cent of scheduled caste women and 41 per cent of SC men” in this rural landscape (see box).

Now BJP-ruled states like Rajasthan, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh have for some time been prescribing qualifications and restrictions which many feel are unconstitutional. And since the SC’s word is law, there’s every chance other state governments will follow Haryana’s footsteps. Indeed, going by advocate-general Mukul Rohatgi’s enthusiastic endorsement of the “progressive” Haryana law, even Parl­iament may not be safe for too long.

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Outlook, 28 December, 2015, http://www.outlookindia.com/article/what-the-chaupal-teaches/296187


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