Hyderabad: Telangana is most likely to witness byelections for local bodies before the Assembly elections in December of this year. In the last three years, the TSEC has written to the state government several times seeking approval to conduct the byelections to local bodies. There are 5,727 vacancies for ward members, 344 vice-sarpanches, 246 sarpanches, 120 mandal parishad territorial committee …
The TS Election Commission has written to the state government seeking approval to hold byelections to over 6,000 seats in rural local bodies across the state, including for ward members, sarpanches, ZPTC and MPTC members. In the elections for rural local bodies held in January 2019, the TRS won nearly 95 per cent of the seats. There are also reports …
