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52. Even otherwise, orders passed by the Court in certain matters, delimitation and creation of Municipal Corporation Baddi, Nagar Panchayats Kunihar, Swarghat, Jhadhutta, Jwala Ji, Nagrota of Surian and Panchayat Sumiti, Fatehpur, Nargota Surian as well as delimitation of Wards of Zila Parishad, cannot be used as a shield to rt justify inaction on the part of State, because the aforesaid cases, not more than dozen, cannot be said to have caused delay in finalizing the roster point of reservation in Panchayati Raj Institutions throughout Himachal Pradesh, because it is itself the case of respondents that the delimitation of Panchayati Raj Institutions had been completed on 31.05.2025. Even if period of natural calamity from July and August, 2025, is excluded, then also there was sufficient time to continue and complete the exercise of determining reservation roster to ensure election of Panchayati Raj Institutions before expiry of duration of Panchayats.

firstly, Director, Urban Development, in July, 2025, tried to hamper the preparation and publication of rosters by issuing letter dated 10.07.2025, and thereafter, despite objection of the State Election Commission to this letter and continuous requests made to all of concerned, no steps were taken for finalizing the reservation roster in September 2025. To cover-up the inaction of the State, office order rt dated 08.10.2025 is appears to have been issued and further, the delay is not because of any judgement passed by the Court, but because of the attitude and intention of the officers of the State, reflecting the intention of the Government.

Constitution, the Election Commission should have acted as elder brother and other limbs of the State should have cooperated with the Election Commission in order to take appropriate decision for conducting the elections. All of them should have functioned of harmoniously without involving in tug-of-war. It has hampered the public interest in violation of Constitutional mandate.

69. rt In the schedule placed on record by the respondent-State, it has been depicted that for completion of role on its part for reconstitution of Panchayati Raj Institutions, final publication of the delimitation of Wards shall be completed by 24.02.2026, and thereafter, 30 days' time has been shown to be taken for determining reservation roster. In fact, apart from the certain Panchayati Raj Institutions, Nagar Panchayats, one Municipal Corporation and delimitation of 12 Zila Parishads, entire exercise has been completed by the State as well as State Election Commission. Electoral role is also ready for publication to invite objections and for applications to include the name of left out voters. Therefore, the exercise to determine the reservation roster in all other areas, where delimitation is already complete and has not to be undertaken afresh, respondent-State should carry on exercise of determination of reservation roster and publication therefor 2026:HHC:2737 simultaneously. The final re-publication of delimitation is also not to be made in the entire Himachal Pradesh, but with respect to the above referred Panchayati Raj Institutions and ULBs and thus, the reservation .

roster with respect to such small number of institutions can be determined in a short period, to say within less than a week, and therefore, it would be easily possible to publish reservation roster on or before 28.02.2026.

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70. Similarly, time to be taken by the Election Commission, about 90 to 140 days, as reflected in Proposal A and B referred supra rt is also exaggerated for the same reason, as exercise pending completion is with respect to small pockets, whereas for the rest of the State, the said exercise has already been done and the election after publication of reservation roster can be conducted and completed by the Election Commission within about eight weeks.