Officers issued a draft notification on June 5, proposing 60 wards comprising 1,34,019 voters, and invited written objections, complaints, and options from the general public by June 11.
Revealed Date – 13 June 2025, 12:53 AM
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Kothagudem: Objections are pouring in over the formation of recent municipal divisions within the just lately constituted Kothagudem Municipal Company.
The State authorities had introduced the creation of the company by merging Kothagudem and Paloncha municipalities, together with Nayukulagudem, Lakshmidevipalli, Komatipalli, Nimmalagudem, Mangapet, Narsimhasagar, and Sujatha Nagar gram panchayats of Sujatha Nagar mandal.
Paloncha Municipal Commissioner Okay Sujatha was given full extra cost as Commissioner of the brand new municipal company. Officers issued a draft notification on June 5, proposing 60 wards comprising 1,34,019 voters, and invited written objections, complaints, and options from the general public by June 11.
Nevertheless, a number of political leaders and residents have alleged that regardless of the Telangana Municipalities (Modification) Invoice-2025 being handed on March 24 to facilitate the creation of the company, the method of demarcating the brand new wards was unduly delayed and later rushed by means of with a number of flaws. Solely seven days got for the submission of objections.
Paloncha city Congress president N Ranga Rao and others submitted a petition to Commissioner Sujatha looking for an extension of the deadline by one other 10 days, however to no avail. By the deadline on June 11, as many as 49 objections and options had been obtained.
Most objections identified what they described because the unscientific and arbitrary division of present municipal wards in each Kothagudem and Paloncha municipalities, in addition to within the merged gram panchayats.
Kothagudem city BJP president S Vidyasagar alleged that the division course of was haphazard and demanded that officers deal with public issues.
Opposition events have alleged that the brand new ward boundaries had been drawn to profit the ruling get together and the CPI, which holds the Kothagudem Meeting constituency. Even Congress leaders expressed dissatisfaction and introduced the difficulty to the eye of Income Minister Ponguleti Srinivas Reddy.
Former BRS councillor Vemula Prasad from the twenty seventh ward claimed that his ward had been arbitrarily break up, dispersing a big chunk of his voter base into one other division. He alleged this was finished to favour Congress leaders.
