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Bill on indirect polls to elect sarpanch passed
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- Days after Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari refused to sign an ordinance scrapping direct election for the post of sarpanch, the Assembly recently again passed a Bill to pave the way to hold indirect polls in 1,570 gram panchayats in 19 districts on March 29.
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- The Bill reverses the previous government’s decision on July 3, 2017, to amend clauses of the Maharashtra Gram Panchayat Act of 1958 to facilitate election of the sarpanch directly by the people.
- Indirect Election of Sarpanch: This means that the elected members will choose a sarpanch from among themselves.
- Reasons Cited:
(1) India is a parliamentary democracy and the sarpanch has to be chosen by the elected panchayat representatives.
(2) There have been instances where the sarpanch and other members belong to different groups or parties, leading to conflict and stopping of developmental work in the village.
Sources
The Hindu