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Secunderabad Cantonment MLA, Sri Ganesh Narayanan, has intensified his request to merge civil areas of the Secunderabad Cantonment Board (SCB) beryllium merged with the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) earlier the upcoming Urban Local Body (ULB) elections, saying that immoderate further hold would contradict residents their antiauthoritarian close to elite section representatives.
The MLA began a hunger onslaught successful Hyderabad connected Tuesday (January 20, 2026) accusing the Union Government of repeatedly postponing the merger and neglecting the payment of the Cantonment residents.
The SCB polls were past held successful January 2015 and the elections were not conducted since 2020. Speaking to The Hindu astatine the protestation site, helium said that the existing governance operation had near the Secunderabad Cantonment country without elected representatives and without capable funds, resulting successful stalled improvement and regular hardships for residents. “The lack of an elected section assemblage has created an accountability vacuum successful the area,” helium added.
Mr. Narayanan stressed that the request had go much urgent successful presumption of the forthcoming GHMC elections. “The Cantonment country should beryllium merged with the GHMC earlier the polls truthful that residents could ballot for their representatives and enactment afloat successful municipality governance,” helium added.
The MLA said that implicit the past six years, the Centre had issued gazette notifications each twelvemonth extending the tenure of nominated members of the Cantonment Board by 1 year, without conducting elections. He argued that this signifier showed a deficiency of seriousness connected the portion of the Union authorities successful restoring antiauthoritarian governance successful the Cantonment.
He besides claimed that astir ₹1,200 crores owed to the Cantonment Board were not released and that nary peculiar grants were provided by the Centre.
Outlining the adjacent steps of the protest, Mr. Narayanan said that helium would springiness the Centre 3 days’ clip to respond. After that, helium said, they would denote their aboriginal people of action, including plans to question to Delhi and summation unit connected the BJP-led Union government.
The MLA besides criticised Malkajgiri MP Eatala Rajender, alleging that helium had not taken immoderate meaningful inaugural connected the merger contempt repeated representations. He urged the MP to interruption his soundlessness and instrumentality a proactive basal successful favour of the Cantonment’s integration with GHMC.
