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Local Body Polls: Supreme Court has a Shock for AP Government:- The government of Andhra Pradesh and the State Election Commission are at loggerheads over the local body polls which got delayed due to the coronavirus pandemic. When the Election Commission is ready to conduct the polls, the AP Government opposed their move. This headed for a legal fight. The High Court recently granted permission to conduct the local body polls and the State Election Commissioner Nimmagadda Ramesh Kumar is making all the arrangements for the same. The AP government challenged this decision in the Supreme Court and the case came for hearing in the apex court today. The Supreme Court cleared all the ways and asked the Election Commission to conduct the panchayat elections in the state as per the schedule.