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The State, represented by advocate CK. Sasi and the IUML occasion, represented by advocate Haris Beeran, made an oral mentioning earlier than the CJI for an early listening to.
The SIR course of is scheduled from November 4 to December 4.
The Kerala State Election Commission has determined to conduct elections to the LSGIs within the State on December 9 and December 11.
The elections to the LSGIs within the districts of Thiruvananthapuram, Kollam, Pathanamthitta, Alappuzha, Kottayam, Idukki and Ernakulam have been scheduled for December 9. That for Thrissur, Palakkad, Malappuram, Kozhikode, Wayanad, Kannur and Kasaragod is on December 11. The notification for the election is to be issued on November 14 and that of withdrawal of nominations on November 24. The counting of votes can be on December 13 and the final date for completion of election is December 18.
The Chief Electoral Officer of Kerala had already communicated that the personnel deployed for the LSGIs elections wouldn’t be engaged within the SIR train.
The State Government identified that the simultaneous conduct of the SIR and the LSGIs can be an “close to impossibility”.
“SIR is a big train requiring deployment of 1,76,000 personnel from authorities and quasi-governmental companies for election-related duties and additional 68,000 police and different safety personnel. SIR can also be a complete course of with cumbersome process, requiring the companies of extra personnel numbering 25,668. The pool of educated and election-experienced workers is finite, which constrains real-world deployment. Parting with such a lot of officers for simultaneous SIR and LSGI elections is a close to impossibility, other than presumably placing the State to an administrative deadlock,” the State had submitted.
The authorities mentioned endeavor the SIR would have an effect on the sleek conduct of the native our bodies’ election. There are 1,200 native self-government establishments (LSGIs) within the State of Kerala made up of 941 grama panchayats, 152 block panchayats, 14 district panchayats, 87 municipalities and 6 firms. There are 23,612 wards in complete.
The petitions have highlighted the constitutional mandate below Articles 243-E and 243-U in addition to a statutory mandate below Section 38 of the Kerala Panchayat Raj Act and Section 94 of the Kerala Municipality Act to conduct election to the LSGIs inside 5 years.
Both the IUML and the State Government had made it plainly clear that objected to the constitutionality of the SIR, terming the train an anathema to the democratic polity of the nation.
However, they mentioned the present petitions addressed the quick and sensible downside of the logistics of conducting SIR and native our bodies election on the similar time within the State.
Published – November 19, 2025 12:04 pm IST
