Sagar: Eunuch Kamla Bua's election
to the Mayoral post has been challenged in a local court here
on grounds that she was neither a member of scheduled caste
community nor she had furnished adequate proof in this regard
to the election officer.
Former Burhanpur Municipal Commissioner Mahendra Rai has
challenged her elections stating that she was neither a member
of scheduled caste community, nor she had furnished sufficient
papers to back her claim of being a member of reserved
category to the election officer.
The post of Sagar Mayor was reserved for a woman of
scheduled caste community.
The petition against Kamla Bua was filed on January 1 in
district court here and is scheduled to be heard tomorrow, a
day before she swears-in as the Sagar Mayor.
This is for the second time that the election of a eunuch
elected Mayor on reserved seats had been challenged in Madhya
Pradesh.
Before Bua, her namesake Katni's Mayor eunuch Kamla
Mausi's election was challenged on the ground that she was a
male and had contested polls for the seat reserved for a woman
candidate.
Kamla Mausi's election in 1999 civic polls as an
Independent candidate were set aside by the court after she
was found to be a male.
PTI
First Published: Sunday, January 03, 2010, 18:16