The Supreme Court rejects a plea seeking mandatory rotation of constituencies reserved for Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Scheduled Tribes (STs) in the Lok Sabha and state legislative assemblies. The court does not interfere with an Allahabad High Court judgment that upheld Section 9(1)(c) of the Delimitation Act, 2002, which addresses how reserved constituencies are to be placed.
The bench—led by Chief Justice of India Surya Kant and including Justices Joymalya Bagchi and V. Mohana—says the issue falls within Parliament’s domain rather than the judiciary’s. It declines to direct rotation requirements that are not laid out in the Constitution’s Articles 330 and 332 or in the Delimitation Act.
Some coverage also highlights the petitioner’s argument that certain reserved constituencies, including Kadipur in Uttar Pradesh, have remained reserved for decades. Other reports emphasize the court’s reasoning that it cannot effectively rewrite constitutional or statutory provisions. While all accounts describe the same Supreme Court decision, they differ in how much background they give on the petition’s comparisons and the specific local example.
