Mr. Hemant Gupta, J.:- This order shall dispose of Letters Patent Appeals under Clause X of the Letters Patent bearing Nos.836, 837 and 845 of 2015 preferred against the common judgment passed by the learned Single Judge of this Court on 20.04.2015. This order shall also dispose of CWP No.10442 of 2015 wherein the petitioner has invoked the writ jurisdiction of this Court claiming a writ of mandamus for directing the respondents to convene a meeting for the election of Mayor, Senior Deputy Mayor and Deputy Mayor of the Municipal Corporation, Mohali.

2. However, for the facility of reference, the facts are being taken from LPA No.836 of 2015 wherein the challenge is to the order passed by learned Single Bench of this Court on 20.04.2015 whereby the writ petitions were allowed and the reservation for the post of Mayor from the category of Women of the Municipal Corporation, S.A.S. Nagar, Mohali, was set aside.

3. The Municipal Corporations in the State of Punjab are constituted under Punjab Municipal Corporation Act, 1976 (for short ‘the 1976 Corporation Act’). Section 6-A prescribing the reservation of the post of Chairperson was inserted in the 1976 Corporation Act after