HC: Telangana wants 3 more weeks to decide dates for local bodies’ polls
Due to the non-conduct of elections, the people living in those areas have been deprived of welfare measures and developmental activities.
By Newsmeter Network Published on 3 Aug 2023 2:14 PM GMT
Hyderabad: On Thursday, the Telangana State government requested the High Court to grant three weeks to decide on the dates to conduct elections to the local bodies of Zilla Parishad, Mandal Parishad and Gram Panchayats.
During the proceedings, the Telangana State Election Commission informed the High Court Division Bench, comprising Chief Justice Alok Aradhe and Justice T Vinod Kumar, that it is ready to hold the elections in the entire state and they are waiting for a nod from the BRS government.
Then, advocate general Banda Shivananda Prasad asked the court to grant another three weeks by which the state would be ready with the dates for the elections. Accordingly, the court granted three weeks to the state government.
The Division Bench was adjudicating a PIL filed by advocate Rapolu Bhaskar seeking directions to the Telangana Election Commission and the state government to hold elections to the posts for 220 sarpanches, 94 MPTCs, 4 ZPTCs, 5,364 ward members and 344 deputy sarpanches, which have been kept vacant for many years.
Due to the non-conduct of elections, the people living in those areas have been deprived of welfare measures and developmental activities. In the previous hearing of the case too, the Chief Justice Bench had directed the state government to inform the date for the elections.
The case was adjourned to August 28.
