Hyderabad High Court dismisses petition to postpone polls

Hyderabad: The Hyderabad High Court on Friday dismissed a petition by Marri Shashidhar Reddy seeking for a direction to the Election Commission not to issue any notification for conducting elections to the Legislative Assembly for Telangana in the year 2018 or any future date only after delimitation process connected to seven mandals in Khammam district which were transferred to the successor state of Andhra Pradesh is over by suitable amendment.

A division bench comprising Chief Justice Thottathil .B. Radhakrishnan and Justice SV Bhatt while dismissing the plea agreed to arguments of Election Commission that it had followed the rules and Guidelines of AP Reorganisation act.

The bench affirmed with contentions of EC that after merging of seven mandals into AP, there is no change in number of Assembly/Parliament constitutes in both states.