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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.
AP Govt Challenges High Court s Verdict On Gram Panchayat Elections In Supreme Court Jan 22, 2021, 11:22 IST
The Andhra Pradesh High Court on Thursday gave green signal for the conduct of gram panchayat elections in four phases from February 5th. On January 8, the SEC announced the schedule for gram panchayat elections but the government of AP contended that holding elections would not be possible in view of the coronavirus vaccination programme.
The elections will be conducted in four phases and the notification for the first phase is going to be issued on January 23.
The Andhra Pradesh government filed a petition in the Supreme Court against HC verdict on the conduct of gram panchayat elections. The petition will be heard in the Supreme Court today.
SEC to adopt 2019 rolls for local body elections
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The State Election Commission (SEC) has decided to adopt electoral rolls already published with reference to January 1, 2019 as qualifying date and updated up to the date of notification for MPTCs/ZPTCs on March 07, 2020 for conducting the local body elections.
State Election Commissioner Nimmagadda Ramesh Kumar, in an order on Friday, said the Commission earlier decided to adopt the latest Assembly electoral rolls published by the Election Commission of India. The ECI has published the final Assembly electoral rolls on January 15, 2021 on schedule.
The Panchayat Raj Department and the Commissioner of Panchayat Raj have singularly failed to take any meaningful and follow up measures to either obtain the draft electoral rolls published by the ECI on November 16, 2020 or even the final roll published on January 15, 2021, despite being reminded on any number of occasions, the order said.
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AP High Court Cancels the Schedule of AP Local Body Polls:- The drift between the government of Andhra Pradesh and the state s Chief Election Commissioner Nimmagadda Ramesh Kumar is not stopping anytime soon. Both the parties have approached courts to challenge each other. When the government was ready to conduct the local body polls in the state, Nimmagadda Ramesh Kumar was against the move citing coronavirus as the reason. This decision was appreciated by many and now when Ramesh Kumar is in plans to conduct the polls, the government opposed the decision. The Andhra Pradesh High Court today shocked the Election Commissioner Nimmagadda Ramesh Kumar against the local body polls saying that this would not be the right time to conduct the polls.