Panchayati Raj in Uttar Pradesh: A Study

Like other states, Uttar Pradesh's initial response to the 73rd Constitution was very lax. One of the reasons for this was that at the time these amendments were passed, Uttar Pradesh was under President's rule after the Bharatiya Janata Dal's Kalyan Singh government was expelled due to the Ayodhya incident. Although committees of bureaucrats were formed to look into these matters, but no special result came out of them. Even then some preliminary work was done and as a result when Mulayam Singh became the Chief Minister of the Samajwadi Dal-Bahujan Samajwadi Dal government, a kind of draft was ready for the new government to consider.Initially, the state government itself had many objections to the amendment, but ultimately the period of one year prescribed by law for the implementation of the amendments was expiring quickly, so late night on the last day of this period, necessary laws related to these amendments were passed by the State Legislature. Hastily passed by In fact, it was passed in both the Houses without any discussion or deliberation. In this chapter, it is described to what extent the 73rd and 74th amendments have been implemented in Uttar Pradesh.