YSRC supporters made a near-clean sweep in the village panchayat elections, capturing majority of the seats in most of the 12 districts that went to polls in the first phase on Tuesday.
There have been many suppositions that Nimmagadda's negative impact will be big on YCP with regard to the results of the ongoing Panchayat elections.
Bhyripuram, a small village in Andhra Pradesh's Srikakulam district has emerged as a champion of unanimous elections in the past 57 years, with no panchayat elections being held there.
The state government seems to have woken up now to sit down and to place all its policies, GOs and Acts, in line with the legal framework.
YSR Congress party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy made a desperate attempt to convince his sister Y S Sharmila to drop her plans to launch a new political party in Telangana, but she did not heed to his appeal.
The Supreme Court is likely to take a final call on the special leave petition by the Jagan Mohan Reddy government in Andhra Pradesh challenging the state high court order stalling probe into Amaravati land scam.
The first phase of the panchayat elections in Andhra Pradesh kicked off on a peaceful note on Tuesday as voting began at 6.30 am in 18 revenue divisions, official said.
Tension prevailed in Macherla assembly constituency as the deadline for filing of nomination papers for gram panchayat elections ended on Monday.
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It looks as if Governor Biswabhushan Harichandan had given his peace of mind to State Election Commissioner Nimmagadda Ramesh Kumar on the local body elections.
If the ongoing developments are any indication, Y S Sharmila, sister of YSR Congress party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy, is all set to launch a new political party in Telangana.
Legislative Affairs Minister Buggana Rajendranath and Advocate General S Sriram met Governor Biswabhushan Harichandan at Raj Bhavan on Monday.
In the light of first phase Panchayt polls on Tuesday, Andhra Pradesh Panchayat Raj commissioner Girija Shankar on Monday said election officials will conduct thermal scanning of all the voters to filter out people with temperature or Coronavirus symptoms to facilitate them to exercise their franchise separately.
With each passing day in Andhra Pradesh, friction between the state government and the State Election Commissioner Nimmagadda Ramesh Kumar is increasing, leading to a flurry of orders from the latter and a verbal backlash from the ministers and legislators.
Self-styled intellectual and former Congress MP from Rajahmundry Vundavalli Arun Kumar, once a staunch loyalist of late Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy, doesn’t gel with the latter’s son and present Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy.
