PANCHAYAT POLLS

Polls to urban local bodies in Andhra Pradesh to be held on March 10

According to a notification issued by the SEC, the counting of votes polled in the elections to 12 Municipal Corporations, including Greate...

SC seeks AP's reply on Odisha's contempt plea for notifying Panchayat polls in its villages

The Supreme Court on Friday asked Andhra Pradesh to file its response on a plea filed by Odisha seeking contempt action against senior offi...

Kotia rural polls: Odisha set to challenge Andhra Pradesh State Election Commission's move in Supreme Court

The deputy secretary to the law department Bhagaban Nayak has written to the advocate on record (AOR) Sibo Sankar Mishra asking him to file...

First phase of AP panchayat elections sees 82% voter turnout

However since 525 were unanimously elected and no nomination was filed for a village in Nellore district, polls were held for 2,723 panchay...

Voting for 1st phase of Gram Panchayat polls underway in Andhra Pradesh

Voting for the first phase of Gram Panchayat polls is underway in the state of Andhra Pradesh. Voters came at the polling centre in Sampath...

AP Panchayat Polls: Election Commissioner orders confinement of Minister to home

In a rare occurrence, the AP State Election Commission on Saturday issued orders to the Director-General of Police to ensure that Minister ...

AP Panchayat polls: SEC seeks removal of senior IAS officer from election duties

After censuring two senior IAS officers for their alleged dereliction in discharging their duties, the Andhra Pradesh State Election Commis...

SEC issues notification for gram panchayat elections in Andhra Pradesh

In the first phase, gram panchayats under 146 revenue mandals in 11 districts will go to polls, according to the notification issued by Sta...

Andhra Pradesh High Court upholds SEC’s decision to hold Panchayat polls

The Reddy government, which has been at loggerheads with the SEC over conducting elections for local bodies since last March, has of late o...

Andhra Pradesh High Court gives nod to conduct gram panchayat polls in state

On January 8, the SEC announced the schedule for conduct of elections to gram panchayats in four phases beginning February 5. The state gov...

Ruling MVA, opposition BJP claim victories in panchayat polls

The ruling Maha Vikas Aghadi, as well as BJP, claimed that they had performed well in the gram panchayat elections, results of which were a...

Polling begins for gram panchayat elections in Maharashtra

Voting began at 7:30 am and will continue till 5:30 pm except in four tehsils in Gadchiroli, a Naxal-hit district, and Gondia district.

Owaisi's party to contest UP panchayat polls

The SBSP, headed by former UP minister Om Prakash Rajbhar, is garnering smaller and regional parties under the Bhagidari Sankalp Morcha.

Andhra Pradesh poll body invokes plenary powers, sacks senior bureaucrat

Ever since the APSEC announced the poll schedule for urban and rural local bodies for February, after postponing it from March last year ow...

Bharatiya Janata Party to meet and discuss strategy for Uttar Pradesh panchayat polls

The party will work out a work plan to apprise the people of how the Adityanath government "successfully turned the pandemic into an opport...

UP Panchayat polls: Akhilesh Yadav accuses government of hurting democracy

Yadav's allegation prompted a rebuttal from UP BJP vice-president and party's in-charge of panchayat elections Vijay Bahadur Pathak who sai...

Panchayat polls: Counting of votes underway in Rajasthan

The polling to elect a total of 636 zila parishad members and 4371 panchayat samiti members were held in four phases in 21 districts of Ajm...