Local polls: Yanamala urges Governor to intervene
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TDP Polit Bureau member Yanamala Ramakrishnudu has urged Governor Biswa Bhusan Harichandan to intervene and guarantee peaceable conduct of the native physique elections within the State.
In a press release on Sunday, Mr. Ramakrishndudu mentioned it was for the Governor to ensure that the Government staff have been allotted for election responsibility.
Article 243 K(3) offered for allotment of staff. The conduct of election was the only real accountability of the State Election Commission (SEC) as per Articles 243A and 243 K(1), he mentioned.
Mr. Ramakrishnudu, who can be Leader of the Opposition within the Legislative Council, mentioned the present political scenario within the State deserved invocation of Article 356.
The Ministers have been brazenly expressing the federal government’s non-cooperative perspective in the direction of the conduct of the native physique elections, he alleged. Such statements from Ministers have been extraordinary earlier, he added.
The authorities staff’ affiliation leaders have been additionally threatening to boycott the election course of. This type of a scenario was not prevailing in any State within the nation, he mentioned.
Referring to Article 243K(3), Mr. Ramakrishnudu mentioned the Governor shall, when so requested by the SEC, make obtainable to it such employees as could also be obligatory for the discharge of the capabilities conferred on the SEC.
“As such, if the SEC makes a plea, the Governor has an obligation to allot the government employees to carry out the election duty,” the TDP chief mentioned.
“It seems the government will use COVID-19 as a pretext to postpone the polls till June 2022,” he mentioned.
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