VIJAYAWADA: The completion of local body elections has given yet another assignment to chief minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy. The legislative council in the state has 11 vacancies representing the local bodies, which fell vacant in June this year. They were kept vacant as the local body elections were postponed earlier. The Election Commission of India had deferred the filling up of three MLC posts since May 2021.
After several months of court dispute over the MPTC and ZPTC elections, the local bodies were formed early this month. The municipal elections too were held in March this year. The ruling YSR Congress swept all the municipal and ZP elections, leaving no space for TDP.
In the municipal elections, TDP won Tadipatri and Mydukuru municipalities while YSRC won the rest.
The ruling YSR Congress had formed all zilla parishads and all municipalities, municipal corporations, which would be electing 11 MLCs for the vacant posts. The MLC posts representing one each from Vizianagaram, Chittoor, Prakasam, East Godavari and Anantapur districts, two each from Visakhapatnam, Krishna and Guntur districts fell vacant and are to be filled now. With the ruling YSR Congress winning all these ZPs and the municipalities, the party’s victory in these MLC posts is for sure.
Similarly, the three vacant MLC posts from the assembly quota too are to be filled. The chief minister is working on selecting the candidates for the 11 local bodies MLC posts and three MLA quota posts. He is also scheduled to fill the vacant chairman and vice-chairman posts of the Legislative Council.
