The Lucknow bench of Allahabad High Court on Tuesday quashed the state government s draft notification on urban local body elections and ordered holding the polls without reservation for the OBCs
Opposition candidates forced to withdraw nominations, says former MP and CWC member
Congress Working Committee member Chinta Mohan on Monday alleged that the ruling YSR Congress Party had won the urban local body elections in the State by resorting to ‘gross misuse of official machinery’.
“I have never in my long political career seen such an undemocratic election as was witnessed during the elections to municipal corporations, municipalties and nagar panchayats now,” he told reporters at Muthukur in Sarvelli Assembly segment of Tirupati Lok Sabha constituency in Nellore district.
“The large number of unanimous wins in favour of the ruling party were achieved by forcing opposition party candidates to withdraw their nominations by threatening to foist cases on them by misusing the police,” the former Union Minister alleged.
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AMARAVATI: Minutes after getting the green signal from the Supreme Court to continue the election process for gram panchayats, State Election Commissioner (SEC) Nimmagadda Ramesh Kumar swung into action on Monday.
SEC revised the schedule for the first phase of elections keeping in view of the fact that the district collectors have not made any arrangements to accept nominations from Monday. SEC said that the dates fixed for the polling (if necessary) for the II, III and IV phase will remain unaltered. However, the II phase will become phase-I and phase-III will become phase-II and phase-IV will be treated as phase-III and phase-I had been rescheduled as phase-IV.
Employees warn of boycotting election duties in Andhra Pradesh
Updated Jan 25, 2021, 10:59 am IST
The swift response of government employees came within hours of Ramesh Kumar issuing a notification for the four-phase panchayat polls
Association president Chandrasekhar Reddy said AP government employees have risked their lives to control Coronavirus. Instead of appreciating them, the SEC is threatening to terminate and suspend employees in case they oppose the polls. (Representational Photo:PTI)
VIJAYAWADA: Government employees are up in arms against State Election Commissioner (SEC) Nimmagadda Ramesh Kumar announcing the election schedule for holding of the local body polls. They have warned that they may boycott election duties keeping in view safety of employees owing to Coronavirus pandemic.