The Andhra Pradesh State Election Commission (SEC) on the night of the 16th of September, issued a notification regarding vote counting.
It is to be noted, after the Mandal Parishad Territorial Constituency (MPTC) and the Zila Parishad Territorial Constituency (ZPTC) elections were held, the counting of votes were halted. The Andhra Pradesh High Court (HC) put a stay on counting of the votes of the ZPTC and the MPTC elections.
The ZPTC and MPTC election issue started in April, when a Telugu Desam Party (TDP) leader filed a petition against the implementation of the elections for the ZPTC and the MPTC. In the petition, the TDP leader said the 4 week election code also called the Model Code of Conduct (MCC) was not imposed as per the directions of the Supreme Court. Besides the TDP leader, JanaSena Secretary Chillapalli Srinivasa Rao and a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Paturi Nagabhushanam, also filed separate petitions seeking the reconduct of the ZPTC and MPTC election.
Although the Andhra Pradesh HC then refused the reconduct of the elections, it asked to halt the counting of the votes.
However, the Andhra Pradesh HC ,on the 16th of September, approved the conduct of the counting of the votes. Immediately after the approval, the SEC issued the notification. The State Election Commissioner Nilam Sawhney issued the notification.
As per the SEC, votes counting for the ZPTC and the MPTC elections are scheduled to be held on the 19th of September, Sunday. Counting of votes would start at 8:00 A.M., with all the arrangements of COVID-19 protocol.
In addition, the SEC asked the ZPTC and MPTC candidates to hand over details of polling agents to the Returning Officers (ROs) by Saturday evening.
With this, by the evening of Sunday, the 19th of September, the results of the ZPTC and MPTC elections would be announced.
Stay tuned for further updates.
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