Simultaneous polls in Khammam, Greater Warangal & GHMC unlikely

Hyderabad: Elections for the Khammam and Greater Warangal municipal corporations are unlikely to be held in concurrence with the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation polls, the state election commission has said.
Contrary to expectations, the SEC wants to first finish the mammoth task of pre-poll preparations for GHMC and then procees for elections to the other two civic bodies.The present term of the elected bodies of Khammam and Warangal civic bodies is up to March 14, 2021 whereas in GHMC it is till February 10 2021.
“Though a final decision has not been taken but the idea is to complete the election process for GHMC and then focus on the other two corporations. There are 150 divisions in Greater Hyderabad having nearly 75 lakh voters,” state election commissioner C Partha Sarathy told TOI.
Meanwhile, the ruling TRS has been busy inaugurating infrastructure projects and announcing new ones in all three municipal corporations. Although TRS working president and municipal administration minister KT Rama Rao is focussing on Greater Hyderabad, he toured Warangal town after heavy rains recently too. Two other ministers Errabelli Dayakar Rao and Puvvada Ajay Kumar are concentrating on Warangal and Khammam civic bodies.