The State Election Commission (SEC) has announced gram panchayat elections in Telangana to be held in three phases on December 11, 14, and 17. The Model Code of Conduct has come into immediate effect across 12,728 panchayats, excluding 32 under High Court stay orders.
The leaders of the BC organisations demanded the commission to remove reservations to economically weak sections and to provide 50 percent reservations to BCs in forthcoming elections to urban and rural civic bodies.
Hyderabad: Unless the Central government takes up the caste-based Census to ascertain the population of backward classes (BC) in the country, the BC organisations in the State have vowed not to vote for the BJP in future. They have also decided to campaign against the BJP in all elections across the country if the BJP […]
