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The Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissed a plea seeking the mandatory rotation of constituencies reserved for Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Scheduled Tribes (STs) in Parliament and state assemblies, stating that such decisions are within the purview of the legislature. The bench, led by Chief Justice of India Surya Kant, upheld the Allahabad High Court's judgment that the identification of reserved constituencies is a legislative matter. Petitioner Jagdish Singh, a voter from the Kadipur Assembly constituency in Uttar Pradesh, had argued that the continuous reservation of his constituency for SCs for nearly seven decades violated constitutional rights and should be subject to rotation. However, the court emphasized that voters in a multiparty democracy are expected to vote based on political ideology rather than caste or religion.
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