Former minister Marri Shashidhar Reddy has questioned the motive behind in the urgency shown for the municipal elections when the government has time up to October this year. After a meeting of the Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) Election Coordination Committee, Mr. Reddy asked where was the need for bringing in a new Municipal Act in such a hurried manner without consulting political parties and other groups.
There is some motive behind the way Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao wants to complete the process within a month. Even the delimitation of municipalities was done “secretly without anyone’s knowledge”. This has forced people to move the courts to get a stay order. The court has already given stay orders on the delimitation of Bhainsa and Shamshabad municipalities while many more cases are being filed by the aggrieved parties, he added.