No postponement for Mandal elections- HC

The Hyderabad High Court on Monday when dealing with a PIL filed by V. Narayan Rao, former MPTC member of Konijerla mandal  which had come for hearing has refused to postpone the elections to the posts of Mandal Parishads Presidents and Khammam Zilla Parishad Chairman post which has been  scheduled to be conducted on Wednesday.

In the Public Interest Litigation which was seeking to retain earlier reservations for the Presidents of Mandal Parishads and Chairman of Zilla Parishad of Khammam district was not proper even after the issuance of AP Reorganisation (Amendment) Ordinance, 2014, which allowed transfer of seven mandals in Khammam district of Telangana state to the residuary state of AP.