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Revenue minister Ponguleti Srinivas Reddy on Saturday directed officials to make special arrangements to ensure that people visiting registration offices do not face inconvenience amid the rush for property registrations.
The petitioner contended that the impugned provision, though couched as a regulatory mechanism, imposed a compulsory membership in Bar Associations and that vested non-statutory bodies with indirect control over an advocate’s right to practice.
A senior functionary of the ruling BJP disclosed to this newspaper here on Saturday that Mr. Yadav has been in touch with the Central party leadership on the matter and waited for a signal from the latter to act on it.