Lok Sabha polls: EC grants conditional nod for Telangana cabinet meeting

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Hyderabad: The Election Commission of India on Sunday granted conditional permission for

Telangana Cabinet meeting

, making it clear that discussions relating to the

common capital of Hyderabad

and

crop loan waiver

shall be deferred till completion of

Lok Sabha election

process on June 4.

Poll body gives conditional nod to T cabinet meeting (1).

Hours after the EC granted approval, the Telangana govt has decided to conduct the cabinet meeting on Monday.

The cabinet meeting, scheduled on Saturday, was postponed as permission was not received from the EC. Chief minister A Revanth Reddy and his ministerial colleagues waited till 7pm at the secretariat, but left without holding the meeting as the poll body did not respond to the state govt's request.

Earlier, Telangana chief electoral officer Vikas Raj forwarded chief secretary Shanti Kumari's letter (dated May 16) requesting permission for conducting cabinet meeting as the model code of conduct (MCC) was in force.
In response, EC principal secretary Avinash Kumar on Sunday stated that the commission's decision to allow "the cabinet meeting is conditional".
'No officials involved in poll allowed'
The meeting may only address "matters that are emergent, urgent, and can't wait till June 4, 2024." Consequently, agenda items concerning the common capital of Hyderabad and crop loan waiver should be deferred till the completion of the Lok Sabha election, 2024, EC stated. Furthermore, no

state govt officer

involved in the conduct of the election would be permitted to attend the cabinet meeting.
Also, MCC is in force in the state due to the upcoming

Graduate MLC poll

for the

Warangal-Nalgonda-Khammam constituency

, scheduled for May 27.
According to the agenda, the cabinet was scheduled to discuss various issues, including farm loan waiver, paddy procurement, kharif planning, and other related matters. As the state prepares to celebrate its 10th anniversary of statehood on June 2 and Hyderabad would cease to be the common capital, the chief minister also wanted to discuss issues pertaining to the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act in the cabinet meeting.

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