Andhra Pradesh MPTC, ZPTC Elections 2021 Live Updates: Polling Under Way

AP MPTC, ZPTC Elections 2021 Live Updates: Voters in a Queue line for ZPTC. MPTC elections Gollapudi near Vijayawada. 

AP MPTC, ZPTC Elections 2021 Live Updates: Polling in progress in Stuartpuram of Bapatla mandal of Guntur district on Thursday.

AP MPTC, ZPTC Elections 2021 Live Updates: Amid strict surveillance, the ZPTC and MPTC elections started off in the Visakhapatnam district at 7 a.m. on Thursday.

Polling will begin at 7 am and it will continue till 5 pm.

A total of 27,751 polling stations have been identified for the elections. Of these, 6,492 are sensitive polling stations, 6,314 are hypersensitive, while 247 are extremist-affected. Web casting facility has been arranged for at 3,538 polling stations.

The State Election Commission (SEC) on Wednesday announced that it has completed the arrangements for ZPTC and MPTC elections scheduled on Thursday in the state. Altogether, 515 ZPTCs and 7,220 MPTCs will be going to polls.

MPTC, ZPTC polls today as HC sets aside stay order

A division bench of AP high court comprising Chief Justice Arup Kumar Goswami and Justice C Praveen Kumar on Wednesday set aside the single judge order and allowed the state election commission to conduct elections to MPTCs and ZPTCs as scheduled on April 8. However, the court directed the SEC not to take up counting and declaration of results pending disposal of the petitions. On Tuesday, the single judge bench of Justice U Durga Prasad Rao had stayed the election notification citing that the model code conduct (MCC) was not enforced by the SEC as directed by a Supreme Court order. Challenging the order, Kannababu, secretary to the SEC, moved a house motion petition before the divison bench on Tuesday night.