VIJAYAWADA: The scuffle over consentaneous elections between YSR Congress, State Election Commission and opposition parties is heading for a flashpoint with the ruling celebration entirely in favour and the SEC and opposition celebrations opposing the same.YSRC maintains that it was legal and constitutional and assists in resolving political distinctions and factions in villages.
However, the SEC warned against irregular consentaneous elections.
Surprisingly, for the very first time, SEC Nimmagadda Ramesh Kumar announced forming 'Shadow Teams' to prevent forcible consentaneous elections and also to keep track of everything at the ground-level.
He stated that unanimous elections present a serious risk to democracy as they protest the spirit of Constitution and such trends tend to deprive downtrodden communities of power.
He cautioned that if anyone is found guilty of forcing unanimous elections, they would be sternly dealt with.Going an action further, Telugu Desam demanded cancellation of consentaneous elections by force made in March in 2015.
Around 27 per cent consentaneous elections were registered during the MPTC and ZPTC elections, which was 'irregular'.
The TD called its leaders and cadre to prevent unanimous elections and this has actually turned the gram panchayat unanimous principle into a war in between the ruling party, the opposition celebrations and the SEC.
The YSRC argues that the system of local governance has actually existed considering that ancient times.
In those times each village had a self-administered governance system.
The town governance was carried by the Panchas (5 smart leaders).
The town neighborhood used to select the panchas unanimously.The important requirements followed in their selection were the individual's character, truthfulness, benevolence, impartiality and capability of providing justice without bias.
The objective of adopting this approach was to have unity and harmony among diverse groups of individuals in the town to enhance cooperation between the people, the ruling celebration points out.
Ministers Botsa Satyanarayana and Peddireddi Ramachandra Reddy, leaders Sajjala Ramakrishna Reddy and others specified that Gujarat, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Telangana and Punjab continued to have gram panchayats elections on a non-political party basis.They claimed that states have actually embraced ingenious methods to encourage consentaneous elections at the town panchayat level.
They declared that the constitution itself is offering choice to unanimous elections with people's permission.
They explained no election commissioner has actually up until now opposed unanimous elections.
Ramesh Kumar, nevertheless, was playing his function in the political conspiracy being hatched by beneficial interests.