Notification issued for MPTC, ZPTC nominations

Guntur The State Election Commission issued a notification for the filing of nominations for Mandal Parishad Territorial Constituencies and Zilla Parishad Territorial Constituencies, according to Guntur district Collector and District Election Officer CM Saikanth Varma.

He addressed a meeting with representatives of political parties at the Collectorate on Monday. He said nominations for MPTC and ZPTC seats would be accepted from October 21 to 23.

Scrutiny of nominations would be held on October 24, appeals against rejected nominations could be filed on October 25, and the appellate authority would dispose of the appeals on October 26.

The last date for withdrawal of nominations would be October 27. Polling would be held on November 3 and counting of votes would be held on November 5.

He said the Model Code of Conduct was being implemented strictly across the district.

He explained that all arrangements have been made for the ongoing Guntur Municipal Corporation and Tenali Municipality elections, as well as preparations for the MPTC and ZPTC elections. He said returning officers had been instructed to scrutinise every nomination paper thoroughly and maintain a checklist to ensure that no detail was overlooked. In the GMC area, around 1,100 applications for NOCs had been received in a single day, and all of them were processed and issued overnight, he added. Joint Collector Ashutosh Srivastava, ZP CEO V Jyothi Basu, District Panchayat Officer BV Naga Sai Kumar, and political party representatives of various political parties were present.

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