The Punjab and Haryana High Court struck down a state government rule that gave state residents 75% reservation in private sector jobs on Friday, dealing a blow to the Haryana administration.
Justices G. S. Sandhawalia and Harpreet Kaur Jeewan delivered the decision.
One of the petitioners’ attorneys, senior lawyer Akshay Bhan, said that the bench had invalidated the entire statute. According to him, the petitioners claimed that Articles 14 and 19 of the Constitution were broken by the Haryana State Employment of Local Candidates Act, 2020.
“…we are of the considered opinion that the writ petitions are liable to be allowed and The Haryana State Employment of Local Candidates Act, 2020 is held to be unconstitutional and violative of Part III of the Constitution of India and is accordingly held ultravires and the same is ineffective from the date it came into force,” according to the ruling of the court.
The statute gave candidates from the state a 75% reservation in private sector positions. The court had accepted several petitions opposing the act’s implementation. It became operative on January 15, 2022. It included jobs with a gross monthly salary cap of Rs 30,000 or more.
Representing the Faridabad Industrial Association, Advocate Bhan stated that many industrial groups had filed lawsuits challenging the law. Bhan argued that the state lacked legislative capacity under Article 35 to pass this law.
The act applied to private sector corporations, societies, trusts, limited liability partnership firms, partnership firms, and any individual paying salary, wages, or other forms of compensation to ten or more employees for the purpose of producing, conducting business, or providing any kind of service in Haryana.
In March 2021, Haryana Governor Bandaru Dattatreya signed the Haryana State Employment of Local Candidates Bill.
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One of the Jannayak Janta Party’s main campaign promises at the time of the 2019 assembly elections was to give candidates who were residents of the state a seventy-five percent reservation in private sector positions.
As the saffron party was unable to secure a simple majority on its own following the elections, the JJP extended support to the BJP and constituted a government.
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