Telugu Desam Party president Nara Chandrababu Naidu on Friday urged the State Election Commissioner to reconsider the gram panchayat election schedule of July 3 and issue revised notification duly fixing separate schedule for the nomination and election process for the second and third phases of gram panchayats.
In a press note, the TDP chief opined that nomination process for the three phases of gram panchayat elections be notified separately duly fixing the period between publication of the list of contesting candidates and the polling day uniformly for all the three phases, as was done in the earlier elections held in 2006.
With the date of receipt of nominations has been fixed as July 9 for all the three phases though polling is to be held on July 23 for the first phase, July 27 for the second phase and July 31 for the last phase, Naidu stated the time given for canvassing for election between different phases is varying causing discrimination between the candidates for canvassing. It may also lead to prolonged law and order problem in the villages in view of the keen contest that might take place in most of the Gram Panchayats. (NSS)