"state-election-commission"

Apart from GWMC and KMC, polling will be held for Siddipet, Achampet, Nakrekal, Kothur and Jadcherla municipalities

Hyderabad: TPCC president N Uttam Kumar Reddy has sought Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan’s intervention for postponement of elections to seven ULBs, citing increasing Corona cases across the State. In a letter to the Governor on Friday, the TPCC president said: “Right from hasty preparation of electoral rolls to hurried allocation of reservations to continuance of municipal […]

In the latest order issued by the SEC, no rallies, public meetings, street plays, among other forms of campaign, will be permitted from 7 pm to 8 am beginning Thursday.

The State Election Commission issued notification to this effect on Thursday. Apart from Greater Warangal Municipal Corporation and Khammam Municipal Corporation, elections will be held for Achampet, Siddipet, Nakrekal.

District Collector and District Election Authority Rajeev Gandhi Hanumanthu issued a notification finalising the reservation of wards.

State Election Commissioner C Parthasarathi issued a notification for publication of voters list and identification of polling stations, besides instructing the officials to make necessary arrangements for holding the polls in a smooth manner.

59.96 per cent polling in Hyderabad-Rangareddy-Mahabubnagar constituency

TRS candidate from Warangal-Khammam-Nalgonda Palla Rajeshwar Reddy cast his vote at Warangal, BJP candidate from Hyderabad-Ranga Reddy-Mahabubnagar graduates constituency

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

The SEC has powers of superintendence and conduct of elections but cannot usurp all governmental functions

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

The orders issued are in the nature of reasonable restrictions and are essentially preventive measures, taken recourse to ensure free and fair elections.

Amaravati: Several leaders of Andhra Pradesh State Government employees’ associations have urged the government and also the State Election Commission to postpone the panchayat elections in the state till their frontline personnel were administered the two doses of COVID vaccine. Their Joint Action Committee president Bopparaju and general secretary YV Rao said it was not […]

On the same day, the swearing in of newly elected corporators will be conducted. Unless, the Mayor elections are conducted, Deputy Mayor elections cannot be held.

Amaravati: The Andhra Pradesh Non-Government Gazetted Officers’ (APNGOs) Association has demanded the State Election Commission (SEC) to withdraw its notification on elections to local bodies. In a statement on Saturday, the Association president Chandrasekhar Reddy said with incidents of new Covid-19 strain and bird flu being reported in the State, it was only appropriate to […]

Petitioners alleged that revenue authorities were interfering with peaceful possession and enjoyment of the lands of them and planting saplings under the Haritha Haram programme on the lands without acquiring lands

As per the GHMC Act, the first meeting after general elections of Municipal Corporation will be held within a month of the publication of names of elected candidates in the gazette by SEC

The result of Neredmet was withheld by the State Election Commission as there was a dispute on 544 votes with different marks.

The State Election Commission can treat all the votes with different marks too as valid as the votes also convey the intention of the voter, the court noted.

Hyderabad: A two-judge panel of the Telangana High Court comprising Chief Justice Raghvendra Singh Chouhan and Justice B Vijaysen Reddy in a special session on Saturday morning sent the State Election Commission back to the single judge on the elections at the Neredmet ward. The modified mark was explained in appeal by the State Election […]