Rajasthan Government’s Ordinance fixing minimum educational qualifications for contesting Panchayat polls faces challenge in the Supreme Court

Association for Democratic Reforms and five existing women sarpanch with panchayat samiti members have filed two separate petitions in the Supreme Court challenging the recent ordinance promulgated by the Rajasthan Government that debars uneducated candidates from contesting panchayat polls.The Ordinance fixes class VIII pass as minimum qualification for contesting elections, and class V pass...