VIJAYAWADA: The Andhra Pradesh State Election Commission (SEC) issued a notification to resume the pending election process for conducting elections to urban local bodies, including 12 municipal corporations and 75 municipalities/Nagar panchayats. Elections would be held from 7 am to 5 pm on March 10.

The SEC, in a statement released here on Monday, stated that though it issued notification for conduct of elections for 12 municipal corporations and 75 municipalities/Nagar panchayats on March 9 of last year, and had completed ‘scrutiny of nominations’ on March 14, the process was stopped because of concerns amid Covid-19. The State Election Commission said that it had decided to resume the paused election process from the stage of ‘withdrawal of candidature’ and issued notification for the conduct of polls.

According to the election schedule, the date of commencement of withdrawal of candidature is from 11 am to 3 pm on March 2; the last date for withdrawal of candidature is March 3; date of publication of the list of candidates after 3 pm on March 3; polling date March 10; re-poll, if any, on March 13 from 7 am to 5 pm while date of counting of votes is from 8 am on March 14. With the issue of notification, model code of conduct has come into force in the urban areas in the state.

The election will be held in 12 municipal corporations, including Vizianagaram, Greater Visakhapatnam, Eluru, Vijayawada, Machilipatnam, Guntur, Ongole, Chittoor, Tirupati, Kadapa, Kurnool and Anantapur.

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