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Elections for municipal chairperson and vice-chairperson posts turned chaotic, triggering clashes among supporters of the ruling Congress and Opposition BRS, BJP, and others successful galore places successful the State connected Monday. Ironically, the ruling Congress and its rival BJP reportedly joined hands to unafraid the chairperson and vice-chairperson posts done a ‘sharing system’, portion BRS and Congress besides reportedly entered into an knowing to drawback the posts.
Of the 112 municipality section bodies — whose results of indirect elections were declared connected Monday (February 16, 2026) — Congress secured 86 Chairperson oregon Mayor posts, followed by BRS with 18, 2 by BJP, 1 each by CPI and AIFB, and 4 by autarkic candidates.
However, authorities postponed elections successful 11 civic bodies owed to disputes, protests, deficiency of quorum, and allegations of governmental interference. The postponed municipalities see Thorrur, Yellandu, Sultanabad, Ibrahimpatnam, Kagaznagar, Kyatanapalli, Khanapur, Zaheerabad, Indresham, Dornakal and Jangaon.
Heated scenes prevailed astatine Thorrur municipality successful Mahabubabad territory arsenic Warangal Congress MP Kadiyam Kavya and Palakurthi Congress MLA M. Yashaswini Reddy registered themselves arsenic ex-officio members, which was objected to by the BRS who alleged that Dr. Kavya was an ex-officio subordinate successful the Greater Warangal Municipal Corporation (GWMC). The quality rapidly escalated into slogan-shouting and scuffles betwixt enactment cadres, forcing authorities to postpone the predetermination to Tuesday.
At Ibrahimpatnam successful Rangareddy district, Dornakal successful Mahabubabad and Yellandu successful Bhadradri-Kothagudem, elections of chairperson and vice-chairperson were deferred owed to ‘lack of quorum’, arsenic respective members skipped the oath-taking ceremonies.
Elections were delayed successful Sultanabad successful Peddapalli district, Indresham successful Sangareddy territory and Kyantanpalli successful Mancherial territory due to the fact that parties failed to finalise candidates oregon owed to deficiency of quorum.
With some Congress, including CPM ally, and BRS tied astatine 13 seats each, ex-officio votes of Bhuvanagiri Congress MP Chamala Kiran Kumar Reddy and Jangaon BRS MLA Palla Rajeswara Reddy brought the tally to different 14-14 deadlock successful Jangaon Municipality.
Independents became decisive, prompting allegations of councillor kidnapping. Police stopped vehicles of BRS councillors, triggering a heated statement betwixt MLA Palla Rajeshwar Reddy and elder constabulary officials. Elections were postponed amid the standoff.
BRS elder MLA and erstwhile curate T. Harish Rao made a scathing onslaught connected Congress and BJP, alleging that the 2 parties had compromised ideologies and joined hands solely to artifact BRS from power. He cited instances successful Narsapur, Aliabad, Metpally, Amangal, and different municipalities wherever Congress and BJP allegedly shared chairperson and vice-chairperson posts.
In Aliabad of Medchal-Malkajgiri district, Congress secured the chairperson station with BJP enactment successful the 20-member body, portion Independent councillor Bandari Anusha was elected chairperson with backing from Congress, BRS, AIMIM, and independents successful Adilabad.
In Bhainsa, autarkic councillor T. Dattatri won with enactment from the BJP, AIMIM, and Congress. In Nirmal, Congress captured power, with Appala Kavya elected chairperson and her hubby Appala Ganesh arsenic vice-chairperson.
