The District Collectors postponed the polling of the Chairman and Vice-Chairman posts to 11 Telangana municipalities on Monday, February 16.
These municipalities are Yellandu, Sultanabad, Ibrahimpatnam, Kagaznagar, Ketanapally, Khanapur, Zaheerabad, Inderesham, Dornakal, Jangaon and Thorrur. The elections are likely to be held on Tuesday, February 17, an official from the Election Commission said, even as he did not mention the reason for the delay.
BJP wins Karimnagar Mayor seat, Congress gets Nizamabad
Meanwhile, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won the Karimnagar Mayor seat and the Congress bagged the Nizamabad Mayor post.
In the Karimnagar Municipal Corporation, BJP candidate Kolagani Srinivas was elected as Mayor, while Sunil Rao was elected as the Deputy Mayor.
The Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) decided not to participate in the voting process in the Karimnagar Municipal Corporation.
In the Nizamabad Municipal Corporation, Congress candidate Umarani was elected as Mayor. She secured 34 votes in the mayoral election, while the BJP candidate received 31 votes.
Congress candidate B Chaitanya Srinivas Reddy has been unanimously elected as Mayor of Nalgonda Municipal Corporation.
BRS wins three municipalities
In Patancheru Assembly constituency, the BRS won three municipalities.
Pavani Kumar Goud was elected as the Chairperson of Gummadidala Municipality, while Sandhya Goverdhan Reddy has been elected as the Vice-Chairperson.
In Jinnaram Municipality, BRS councillor Janardhan was elected as Chairman and Pratap Reddy as Vice-Chairman.
Meanwhile, in Gaddapotharam Municipality, BRS councillor G Sushma won the post of Chairperson and Mahendar Goud the post of Vice-Chairperson.
In Bhainsa Municipality, independent candidate Tumolla Dattatri was elected as Chairman and Independent candidate Bibi Kutija Siddiqui was elected as Vice-Chairman.
Tension in Thorrur municipality
Tension gripped the Thorrur municipality on Monday after Congress and BRS workers clashed ahead of the election process to choose the municipal chairperson.
The situation escalated when police allegedly stopped former minister Errabelli Dayakar Rao from entering the municipal office. Dayakar Rao had arrived in a private tourist bus along with BRS councillors, following which his supporters began raising slogans against the Congress, Deccan Chronicle reported.
Congress activists responded with counter-slogans targeting the BRS and Dayakar Rao, triggering a scuffle between the two groups. Despite efforts by police to pacify the rival factions, sloganeering continued.
Anticipating further escalation, police escorted Dayakar Rao away from the premises and deployed additional personnel to prevent any untoward incident.
