RANCHI, Dec. 25 -- The Adivasi Buddhijivi Manch, which had filed contempt petition before the Jharkhand high court and urged action against the state government for delaying implementation of 29-year-old PESA Act in Jharkhand, was not happy with the PESA rules which the state cabinet approved on Tuesday. The tribal body's national convenor Victor Malto said in a press statement that the state government's rules are not in accordance with the Parliamentary Act of 1996. "The Jharkhand cabinet has once again passed the same Panchayati Raj system, replacing the rules of the Parliamentary Act of 1996. It is noteworthy that the Honourable Jharkhand high court, in its mandamus order issued in petition number WP(PIL) No. 1589/2021 filed by the Jharkhand Buddhijivi Manch, stated in "Paragraph 12" that the Panchayati Raj Act of 2001 cannot be considered consistent with the Parliamentary Act of 1996. Therefore, the Jharkhand government was supposed to frame rules in accordance with the Act of 1996, but the state government has wrongly enacted the provisions of the three-tier Panchayati Raj system of the Jharkhand Panchayati Raj Act of 2001, passed by the Legislative Assembly, disregarding the Parliamentary Act of 1996 meant for scheduled areas," Malto said. Malto added that the present rules are contrary to two sections of the Parliamentary Act of 1996. "The current rules are contrary to Sections 3 and 4(m) of the Parliamentary Act of 1996, which grant a total of seven powers to the Panchayat and Gram Sabha at the appropriate level, subject to exceptions and modifications," Malto said. Malto said that the rules will be challenged once they are notified. "They will be challenged in the court after the gazette notification is published," he said....