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BRS leaders urged the State Election Commission to delist symbols resembling the party’s Car symbol, citing voter confusion in the 2023 elections. They claimed over 72,000 votes were lost to lookalike symbols and sought corrective action before local polls

AP State Election Commissioner serving as Director of three PSUs, Governor urged to take corrective action

State Election Commissioner C Parthasarathi instructed the officials concerned to hold the elections in strict adherence to the Covid-19 guidelines

Counting will be taken up in Greater Warangal Municipal Corporation, Khammam Municipal Corporation and five municipalities of Siddipet, Nakrekal, Kothur, Atchampet and Jadcherla

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

Parthasarathi who had fever and tested positive on undergoing Covid-19 test, advised his close contacts also to undergo testing

Governor of Andhra Pradesh Biswabhusan Harichandan has given his consent to the proposal of the state government and approved the name of Sawhney, for the post of State Election Commissioner, subject to her resigning from her existing post.

The polls, which were scheduled to be held last year, were postponed on account of the Covid-19 pandemic.

"As long as TDP government was in power, you did not think of elections, you did not bother about elections. When all the employees are in coronavirus fear psychosis, you are pressuring for conducting elections," said employees'

Cops' body said Covid situation was grave in the State and urged SEC to rethink about conducting the polls

Visakhapatnam: Municipal Administration Minister Botsa Satyanarayana has alleged that the State Election Commissioner Nimmagadda Ramesh Kumar was behaving like a political party and acting against the spirit of the Constitution. Talking to reporters here on Sunday, he wondered why the SEC chose to conduct elections in Covid conditions. A Constitutional authority also carried with it […]

Vijayawada: After announcing the elections to local bodies from February 5 and dismissing the request of the State government to put them off, State Election Commissioner Nimmagadda Ramesh Kumar on Saturday issued another order asking the government to stop the welfare schemes citing the election code. The fresh order will be a stumbling block to […]

The government has been raising objections regarding local body elections including gram panchayat polls. The government has said that the officials would be engaged in the vaccination programme

Similarly, in Jammu division, Kishtwar has recorded voting percentage of 34.15, Udhampur 24.56, Jammu 36.64, Kathua 34.45, Ramban 36.14, Doda 34.02, Samba 42.01, Poonch 43.88, Rajouri 40.68 and Reasi 41.87 till 11:00 a.m.

Govt was not ready for the elections in the wake of the prevalent Covid situation which could not be compared with other states as already 6,890 people succumbed to the pandemic, says Chief Secretary

State Election Commission wanted the IT Department to come up with software as per the guidelines and present a demonstration at the earliest