THE HON'BLE THE CHIEF JUSTICE SHRI NISAR AHMAD KAKRU and THE HON'BLE SHRI JUSTICE VILAS V. AFZULPURKAR Dated: 25-07-2011 WRIT PETITION No. 20884 OF 2011 Between: Andhra Pradesh MPTCs Association, rep., by its President, Yalamanchili Venkata Babu Rajendra Prasad, S/o Seetharamaiah, Indian, aged 47 years, Occ: MLC., Deputy Floor Leader, R/p Sarpanchagari Street, Vuyyuru, Krishna District ... PETITIONER AND State of Andhra Pradeh, rep., by its Principal Secretary, Panchayat Raj & Rural Development (Elections & Rules) Department, Secretariat, Hyderabad …RESPONDENT THE HON'BLE THE CHIEF JUSTICE SHRI NISAR AHMAD KAKRU and THE HON'BLE SHRI JUSTICE VILAS V. AFZULPURKAR WRIT PETITION No. 20884 OF 2011 ORDER: (per the Hon’ble the Chief Justice Shri Nisar Ahmad Kakru) The term of elected members and presidents of the mandal praja parishads having expired on 21-07-2011, an ordinance amending the Andhra Pradesh Panchayat Raj, 1994 by insertion of Section 250-A, came to issued, empowering the Government to appoint special officers or person in-charge or a committee of persons in-charge to the mandal praja parishads to exercise the powers, discharge the duties and perform the functions of the mandal praja parishads until the election of members, presidents and vice presidents of the mandal praja parishad. In pursuance of the said enactment, the Government authorized the Collectors and the District Magistrates in the State to make the appointments as envisaged by G.O.Ms.No. 187, dated 21-07-2011. The Petitioner - Association of erstwhile members of the mandal praja parishads, being aggrieved, hence this writ petition, challenging the validity of the above referred G.O.Ms.No. 187, in essence on the ground that having worked as elected members, it was obligatory upon the Government not only to consider but to give preference to them for their appointment as special officers/person-in-charge in mandal praja parishads. Admittedly their term has expired and there is no provision in the Act which would provide for continuation of an elected member after expiry of the term. No legal right of petitioner is thus infringed. Thus we find nothing wrong with the G.O.Ms.NO.187, dated 21-07-2011 issued by the Government in exercise of powers vested in it by insertion of section 250-A in Andhra Pradesh Panchayat Raj Act, 1994. Dismissed. VILAS V. AFZULPURKAR, J NISAR AHMAD KAKRU, CJ 25-07-2011 K. Shyleshi