Congress Plans Manifesto for Telangana Local Polls

Haydarabad: For the first time, the Congress plans to publish a party manifesto for the upcoming local organ elections, to improve infrastructure in villages and towns, to increase environmental cleanliness and to make urban and rural areas progressive and livable.

Gram Panchayats, Zilla communities, mandal communities and municipalities are expected to be held in August and September.

According to party sources, Prime Minister A. Revanth Redy pioneered the preparation of the party’s manifesto for local organ elections. Party resources have led the leadership of the TaLangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) to launch steps for manifesto preparation.

Traditionally, the manifestors are released during the Parliamentary and Delik Sabha elections, but for the first time, the ruling congress in TaLangana decided to create a manifesto, especially for local body choices.

Sources have revealed that separate manifesters will be prepared for rural and urban local organs. Manifesto for municipalities will provide better sanitation, infrastructure upgrades, slums, buildings for the poor and access to basic services for each citizen.

Manifesto for rural local organs, roads, drinking water connections, street lamps, sanitation and greenery with advanced infrastructure, such as Gram Panchayats, Mandal Parishad and Zilla Parishads will propose increasing State Finance Commission grants. Party resources are expected to create a manifesto drawing committee soon to conclude details of TPCC leadership.

The Supreme Court of TaLangana set the last date for the state government to carry out these elections. However, the election notification has not yet been published due to delays in the completion of reservations for retrospective classes (BCS).

The state government is in the process of preparing a regulation for BCS in the local organs directed to the governor for approval.

The governor sought a legal opinion on this issue, because such an extension would increase the total reservations of Tahangana to 70 percent and violate the 50 percent limit determined by the Supreme Court.