Goa government will file a Special Leave Petition in the Supreme Court challenging the High Court’s interim stay on the process to ascertain the State’s ST population, a preliminary step towards reserving Assembly seats for Scheduled Tribes. The Centre and the ST community will also approach the apex court, NRI Commissioner Adv Narendra Sawaikar informed.
The decision followed a meeting with Solicitor General of India Tushar Mehta in New Delhi today, attended by Tribal Welfare Minister Ramesh Tawadkar, Sawaikar and ST association leaders. The legal effort will seek to lift the stay so that the reservation exercise can proceed ahead of the 2027 Assembly elections.
“The process has been started,” informed Sawaikar. Member of the ST Association Adv Govind Shirodkar who was also part of the delegation said, they have been asked by SG to file a SLP in the Supreme Court and they will file the same by next week.The legal effort will seek to lift the stay so that the reservation exercise can proceed ahead of the 2027 Assembly elections.
