June 15: With an AP High Court Division Bench on Wednesday staying the operation of an order issuing guidelines for providing 60.5 per cent reservations to various communities, the panchayat raj elections that were slated to be held in July have been indefinitely postponed. The stay came as a relief for the ruling Congress and the Telugu Desam as neither was in a position to face the polls at this juncture.
The state government has thus pushed forward its proposal to bring in an Ordinance amending the AP Panchayat Raj Act, 1994, for appointing special officers/in-charges for the Zilla and Mandal Parishads to fill the vacuum that will be created after July 21. The stay order issued by the AP High Court virtually stalled the whole process of holding the panchayati raj elections for which the State Election Commissioner, Mr P. Ramakanth Reddy, had already started working on the process.
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