INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
28 The Andhra Pradesh government on Wednesday opposed the holding of elections to local bodies citing the danger of the second wave of
SEC sought the opinion of the state government in view of the earlier Supreme Court directions to resume the poll process in consultation
with the state government
The ruling YSR Congress had already questioned the SEC move to elicit the views of political parties without consulting the state
constitutional body, avoidable in the best democratic traditions
Defending the list of political parties invited to elicit views, the SEC said the commission had followed the best practices of the election
commission of India in all matters
Recognised political parties with reserved symbols are necessarily called for consultation and the SEC did not wish to deviate from this
