Vote Politics To mask Incompetence

Areas where elections have to be held
Corporations: Greater Visakhapatnam, Kakinada, Guntur, Ongole, Kurnool, Tirupati, Srikakulam
Municipalities: Rajam, Nellimarla, Kandukuru, Rajampet

• While Guntur Corporation has 4,81,544 voters, 1,22,223 votes have been eliminated, which means about 25% of the votes have been removed. It has been noted in Chandrababu’s dashboard too. But the Government does not have an answer as to why such huge number of votes have been cancelled.
• To reorganise the voters’ list of Kurnool Municipal Corporation, a door-to-door survey has been held. During this, 41,311 votes have been removed due to pressure from ruling party leaders.
• 1,33,898 votes increased in this year, but during additions and deletions, 73,121 votes have been removed. Most of these are favourers of YSRCP.
  

The ruling party is hesitating to hold the elections that should have been conducted long ago. Chandrababu has not implemented at least one of the promises he made at the time of elections in 2014. So TDP is scared to face local elections. Now that it has no choice but to hold elections, the ruling party is resorting to misdeeds to get into power by hook or crook. To hinder the domination of YSRCP in the victory, it is doing many forbidden acts.

Fear of defeat

The Municipal Elections took place just before 2014 general elections. The elections at 7 corporations and municipality did not happen due to various reasons. With no elections happening for years, the development in those areas has failed. In Guntur, special officer administration has been going on since September 30, 2010. About the merger of 8 villages near Guntur, there was no clarity. Elections should have happened in Guntur, Visakhapatnam, Kakinada, Kurnool, Ongole, Tirupati and Srikakulam corporations. But they were not held after TDP came to power in 2014.

Promises slaughtered

Chandrababu made many impossible promises prior to elections. In the 2.5 years of rule he has not implemented any one of them. So he is afraid to face people. Moreover, the yellow leaders have been swallowing crores of rupees in the name of welfare schemes. Janmabhoomi committees that were formed against the constitution intervene in almost all the government activities, ultimately facing opposition from the general public. Nobody in urban areas has been sanctioned new pensions. Good quality houses or housing plots have not been granted as promised. All these reasons gave rise to fury among people towards TDP leaders. In such a situation, the leaders of the party have no courage to face the public. So there resorted to remove the votes of those who favour YSRCP, in order to win through backdoor.