Telangana High Court on Tuesday gave one-day time to the State government to fix the time frame for conducting election to the Siricilla-based Co-operative Electric Supply Society (CESS) comprising nearly 3.5 lakh members.
A bench of Chief Justice Ujjal Bhuyan and Justice Chada Vijaya Bhaskar Reddy passed this direction while hearing a writ petition filed by A. Kanakaiah, one of the CESS members. The petitioner challenged the validity of Government Order (GO) routine 151 issued on this April 18 empowering the government to run a co-operative society with members appointed by it for three years.
The petitioner contended that the GO 151 was striking at the very idea of cooperative movement by empowering the government to run a cooperative society with members appointed by it. During the earlier hearing, the bench stayed operation of the GO.
