The two-judge panel of the Telangana High Court on Thursday issued notice to the state government in a writ petition questioning the disqualification of two children in the GHMC elections. A team of Chief Justice Ragvendra Singh Chauhan and Justice B Vijayasen Reddy heard the writ petition filed by Sridhar Babu Ravi and Mohammad Taher seeking to declare section 21B of the 1955 GHMC Act unconstitutional.
The petitioners questioned the contestants who had more than two children born after May 1955, who were disqualified to contest municipal elections in the GHMC area under the GHMC Act, 1955. They also pointed out the Telangana Municipality Act, 2019. Other municipalities and municipal corporations in the state. The petitioner's lawyer T Svecha argued that it was a discriminatory act in nature to continue disqualification only in GHMC. Similarly, she argued that there should be a reasonable classification in applying the law to a homogeneous group of people.
The petitioners point out that the agenda on international population and development on Cairo, 1994 and the National Population Policy, 2000 is continued. The petitioners said that the fertility rate statistics also do not allow such classification. The panel has postponed the case to November 19 for the government's response.
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