Telangana HC issues notices to state for not conducting elections to local bodies
Telangana High Court Division Bench issued notices to the Chief Election Officer and few others
By Newsmeter Network Published on 24 March 2023 7:20 PM IST
Hyderabad: A Telangana High Court Division Bench headed by Chief Justice Ujjal Bhuyan and Justice N. Tukaramji on Friday issued notices to the Chief Election Officer, National Election Commission; Chief Electoral Officer, State Election Commission; and the Commissioner, Panchayat Raj Department, Telangana. The Bench directed them to respond to the notices by 20 April, duly furnishing reasons for not holding elections to the local bodies as the last elections to the local bodies were held in 2019.
M. Rangiah, counsel for the petitioner, contended that due to not conducting of the elections to the local bodies across the state, developmental and welfare activities in various villages have come to a grinding halt, thereby depriving the citizens of development.
The Division Bench was adjudicating the plea filed by Rapolu Bhaskar, an advocate from Hyderabad, seeking a direction to the Chief Electoral Officer, State Election Commission, Telangana to conduct the elections to the local bodies of zilla parishad, mandal parishad, and gram panchayats in the entire state of Telangana, i.e., 220 sarpanches, 94 MPTCs, 4 ZPTCs, 5,364 ward members, and 344 deputy sarpanches, which are vacant in the state for years.
The matter was adjourned to 20 April.
