HYDERABAD: The Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) on Saturday accused the State government of trying to conduct the municipal elections in an unnecessarily hurried manner.
Speaking to reporters in Hyderabad, former minister and senior party leader Marri Shashidhar Reddy said the High Court has given time till October for elections to urban local bodies (ULB). “But the government, with mala fide intentions, wants the elections to be held within a month,” he said .
Reddy said the delimitation of wards was done in a clandestine manner. “The High Court has stayed the elections at Bhainsa and Shamshabad municipalities until due process is followed with respect to the delimitation exercise. More such cases will be filed against delimitation of wards in the future as well,” he said.
The senior Congress leader wondered why the government was bringing a new Municipal Act and not conducting polls with the existing Act instead. TPCC vice-president Mallu Ravi, who has been appointed in-charge for Rangareddy district for the elections, said he would soon hold a meeting with leaders in Ibrahimpatnam.
On the government’s plan to construct a new Secretariat and Assembly, he said, “The government is unnecessarily demolishing the existing buildings. The people should show their disapproval by voting against TRS candidates in the elections.”Meanwhile, TPCC’s OBC department said it had decided to take up agitation for the implementation of 34 per cent reservations in the upcoming municipal elections.