INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
HYDERABAD: Severe doubts have actually risen over the conduct of the regional body polls in Telangana, with State Election Commissioner C
Parthasarathi presently being quarantined.The Commission, it was solely found out and validated by Deccan Chronicle, based upon court
instructions, has sought the opinion of the state federal government on whether it need to proceed, or hold off, the surveys
Elections for 2 corporations and five municipalities were arranged to be held on April 30
For all useful functions, the SEC being currently indisposed from performing his duties, remaining in quarantine, is causing a gross
compromise on the fundamental principle of free and fair polls.Highly put sources told Deccan Chronicle that the Commission has actually
written to the State federal government, seeking its views on holding the elections in such an increasingly intensifying pandemic.Sources
said that the SEC was responding to a query on holding the surveys from the Telangana High Court
Though the SEC is all powerful to take decisions, the state government, in whose court the concern lands under the guise of assessment
process, ends up being the de-facto choosing authority, sources pointed out
While the second wave of Covid 19 revealing a severe impact on the State, the government chose to conduct elections to Warangal and Khammam
local corporations besides five other municipalities.In a shocker to the opposition parties, in what has become a standard procedure, the
SEC, the alert, the survey schedule, and the bookings to wards were all announced in quick succession on the very same day
The opposition, by the modus operandi first unveiled in the GHMC elections, ends up having the have least possible time to pick prospects
The SEC released notice on April 16 and gave simply 2 days time to celebrations to discover prospects and have them submit their
nominations, a when of the practice improved during the leadup to the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation polls, which had also
attracted severe criticism from the opposition parties
We are making a genuine and apolitical interest the SEC and government to hold off the community elections keeping in mind the harmful
situation prevailing in the state, stated N Uttam Kumar Reddy, Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee president
The government itself admitted the grim circumstance and imposed night curfew in the state, he pointed out.As widely reported in the media,
the public conference recently held by Chief Minister and TRS supremo K
Chandrasekhar Rao, as part of the marketing for Nagarjunasagar bypoll, ended up being a possible Covid super-spreader
Mr Chandrashekar Rao himself, a number of other participants at the meeting, including the TRS party candidate N
Bhagat and energy minister G
Jagadish Reddy were found to have actually checked positive soon after.Elections and campaigning in parallel to the rise of a second wave of
Covid has drawn extensive public consternation even as the courts are constantly pulling up the government over its actions to prevent
further spread and managing the Coronavirus spread
In West Bengal, all significant celebrations have now stated that they would not arrange any public conferences
When Telangana is going through such a health crisis, what is the requirement to hurry these elections for towns? Why risk the lives of
lakhs of people at a time when long queues outside hospitals, testing centres, for oxygen cylinders, for remdesvir and other drugs and
unfortunately, outside crematoriums? How can it come down to a choice of power over people? stated an authorities
