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Secunderabad Cantonment MLA, Sri Ganesh Narayanan, boycotted a gathering of the Cantonment Board held connected on Wednesday (February 18, 2026), protesting against the prolonged hold successful holding the Cantonment elections and the Centre’s inaction connected merger of the civilian areas successful Secunderabad Cantonment Board (SCB) with the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC).
The MLA’s determination follows a bid of protests, including an eight-day relay hunger onslaught held precocious astatine the Ambedkar statue successful Karkhana. He said the agitation reflected increasing nationalist choler implicit governance issues and delays successful the civilian areas development.
Instead of attending the committee meeting, Mr. Ganesh met Brigadier S. Rajiv, president of the SCB and submitted a memorandum demanding that the merger process beryllium initiated immediately. He urged the serviceman to guardant the practice to the Ministry of Defence and different Central authorities, calling for the civilian areas to beryllium afloat integrated with the State government’s municipal corporation.
A Joint Action Committee (JAC) was formed to intensify the campaign, bringing unneurotic nonmigratory payment associations and assemblage groups to property for the merger and the restoration of elected section governance, arsenic per a property release.
