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As second-phase gram panchayat polling approaches, Congress leaders face voter anger and internal discomfort after setbacks in key villages during the first phase. With 3,911 sarpanch posts at stake on Sunday, protests erupted again as villagers questioned unfulfilled poll promises

The Telangana High Court ruled that once the State Election Commission issues a panchayat poll notification, courts cannot interfere under Article 243-O. While noting flaws in reservation allocations, the Bench said elections cannot be stalled and any vacant posts must be re-notified later

Erstwhile Adilabad recorded 2,730 nominations for 514 gram panchayats in the second phase of polls. Districts including Adilabad, Mancherial, Nirmal and Kumram Bheem Asifabad saw large filings. Polling is on December 14 and counting will be held the same day

The Telangana High Court on Friday refused to stay the State’s panchayat elections, rejecting petitions filed by BC organisations challenging G.O.Ms. 46 on reservations. The Court directed the government to file a counter on sub-category reservations within six weeks.

BC aspirants across the erstwhile Adilabad district staged protests after the new gram panchayat reservation list allotted fewer seats to the community compared to 2019. Several mandals in non-Scheduled Areas received no BC reservations, intensifying local discontent

Senior Congress leaders from Siddipet have launched a coordinated revolt against the AICC’s appointment of Tumukunta Akansha Reddy as DCC President. Multiple factions are lobbying for a reversal, intensifying internal divisions ahead of the panchayat elections and leaving party cadres uncertain

Says the Telangana Chief Minister failed to keep his promises even after completing 15 months in power

For the past few months, there has been ongoing speculation about the local body elections. Initially, it was anticipated that panchayat elections would take place shortly after Diwali last year, but they were later postponed to Sankranthi.

The CPM State unit has demanded the State government to hold the elections immediately as the term of panchayats ends on January 31.

The Assam State Election Commission has published the draft photo of the electoral rolls for panchayat elections likely to be held by the end of the year in the state.

Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma on Wednesday said that around 150 people from West Bengal have sought refuge in Assam following violence.

Photographs of the cop sitting on top of the woman and hitting her, have gone viral on the social media. The incident reportedly took place on Saturday.

Voting for the third phase of Uttar Pradesh panchayat elections began at 7 am on Monday and will conclude at 6 pm.

Huge voter turnout was recorded in the majority of 2,743 Panchayats going to polls in the last phase.

The revenue divisions in which polls will be held in the second of the four phases are Tekkali, Palakonda, Parvathipuram, Narsipatnam, Rajamahendravaram, Ramachandrapuram, Kovvuru, Gudiwada, Narsaraopeta

Though the elections were to be held for 3,328 Panchayat sarpanchs, 539 have been unanimously elected while no nomination was filed for three villages.

Ramakrishna Reddy slammed the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) leaders for distorting the facts through a section of media to confuse the public.

The polls will be conducted in four phases till February 21 with the first first one being held on Tuesday.

Panchayat polls in the state are scheduled to begin from February 9 and will go on till February 21 in four phases.

According to the notification issued on Saturday, nominations for the first phase of the four phase elections should have begun on Monday.