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GUNTUR: The Election Watch Forum strongly feels that some Code of Conduct is to be prescribed to all politicians. Lack of a code of conduct for the people’s representatives was anti democratic in spirit, opined the Forum Convener P.C. Sai Babu.
The need for such a legislation prescribing code of conduct was imperative, he opined […]

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Mock counting of votes simultaneously in different districts to check software reliability

All set: Collector Shashi Bhushan Kumar and Joint Collector M. Girijasankar examining the mock counting software in Kadapa on Sunday. KADAPA: Data entries of Parliamentary and Assembly constituencies were placed online with the help of software sent by the Election Commission, District […]

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Kakinada: Collector Gopalakrishna Dwivedi has instructed the district officers and staff to be well prepared to upload results of the Parliament and Assembly elections to the Election Commission (EC) website at the end of each round of counting on May 16. The returning officers have to take responsibility for this, for which they should […]

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Day-long training programme organised

No prior info will be given to staff about allotment of tables, constituencyInformation will be given three hours before counting begins on that day

SANGAREDDY: District Collector Peeyush Kumar on Thursday called upon counting officers to abide by the rules during counting of votes on May 16 as even a minute […]

Says YSR will be the Chief Minister once again

‘Congress will not need support from other parties to retain power’Congress too committed to a separate Telangana, says Keshava Rao

HYDERABAD: Panchayat Raj Minister J.C. Diwakar Reddy has said that no other Congress leader in the State can aspire to become the Chief Minister in the place […]

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“We will ride to power on our own strength,” says PR president

- PHOTO: P.V. SIVAKUMAR

Oozing confidence: Praja Rajyam president Chiranjeevi chairing the party’s review meeting on its poll prospects in Hyderabad on Tuesday.
HYDERABAD: Praja Rajyam president K. Chiranjeevi said the question of his party extending support to any other party did […]

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HYDERABAD: Getting down to the business of post-poll review, Praja Rajyam president K. Chiranjeevi has called for a meeting of the party’s Political Affairs Committee (PAC) on Tuesday.
The exercise will begin by analysing district-wise reports prepared over the past four days by convenors with inputs from leaders lower down and from the contesting candidates. […]

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HYDERABAD: Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy and his Cabinet colleagues have now been permitted to sanction benefits to people whose applications are pending under the ongoing schemes and programmes.
They can also review the implementation of these schemes and undertake district tours, accompanied by officials in case they are not drafted for election […]

For polls: Adilabad District Election Officer Ahmad Nadeem accepting security deposit from aspiring contestant for Adilabad (ST) LS constituency.
ADILABAD: Going just by the number of contestants in the April 16 elections in this district it cannot be said that the amount of security deposit for candidates is really a deterrence for the non serious […]

ANANTAPUR: Congress and Telugu Desam began the blame game for the violence occurred at Tadipatri in the district on Friday. Leaders of TDP, K. Srinivasulu, P. Keshav and others alleged that the Congress leaders of Tadipatri, particularly Panchayat Raj Minister J.C. Diwakar Reddy and his brother J.C. Prabhakar Reddy were resorting to spreading violence as […]