YSRCP demands immediate local body polls

Press Release

Hyderabad, May 2, 2013: YSR Congress party on Thursday demanded the Government to take immediate steps to conduct local polls as per the 2011 census.

Addressing media persons at the party headquarters here, YSR Congress party Political Affairs Committee coordinator Konatala Ramakrishna said the Congress leadership should show some respect to the 1973-74 constitutional amendment and conduct the local polls immediately.

For the last two years, the government has been postponing the polls to local bodies on some pretext or the other and allowing them to be run under the direction of the special officers. “Congress leaders have scant respect to the constitutional amendment brought out by their late leader Rajiv Gandhi for conducting local body elections on schedule. Now the 2011 census are out, Congress Government should take steps at least now to conduct the polls as per the latest census,” he said.

Rama Krishna lamented that due to the delay in the conduct of the local body polls, the state has been suffering financially and people are unable to find solutions to their problems as there were no responsible people’s representatives to attend to them at the local level.

“The state has been suffering a drastic cut in the Central funds due to the delay in the local body polls,” he said, pointing out that the municipalities are not in a position even to attend to sanitation and drinking water issues.