Nimmagdda Ramesh Kumar assumed the Andhra Pradesh’s State Election Commissioner’s office on the first of April in 2016. His tenure as the SEC will end in March and he will retire on the 31st of March this year.
With the ongoing Panchayat elections nearing completion in the state, Nimmagadda Ramesh Kumar has issued the election schedule for the Municipal elections. The election schedule will cover 12 Municipal Corporations and 75 Municipalities.
SEC Nimmagadda Ramesh Kumar issued the election schedule for the Municipal polls which were supposed to be held in March last year. The polls were postponed due to the Coronavirus outbreak.
However, the political parties in Andhra Pradesh are raising their objections over the election schedule. Pawan Kalyan’s Jana Sena has opposed the re-notification for the Municipal polls and urged the SEC to issue a fresh notification.
“It’s been nearly one year since the Municipal polls were postponed. Issuing election notification to restart the Municipal polls would not do justice. Fresh notification should be issued,” Jana Sena’s political affairs committee (PAC) chairman Nadendla Manohar.
Now the political circles are waiting for SEC Nimmagadda Ramesh Kumar’s response to the demand from the parties in the state to issue a fresh notification rather than restarting the election process.
Serving SEC Nimmagadda Ramesh Kumar didn’t have a cakewalk in his tenure. He fought a legal battle and even moved the Supreme Court and High Court to get directives to get re-appointed in his post.
Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy has sacked him from his post and appointed retired high court judge Justice V. Kanagaraj as the State Election Commissioner (SEC).
The AP government brought an ordinance to reduce the tenure of SEC from five years to three years.
