SECUNDERABAD: The ministry of defence (MoD) has for the second time in a row extended the tenure of the body of elected representatives of
Secunderabad Cantonment Board
(SCB) by another six months. SCB chief executive officer B Ajith Reddy received a communication to this effect on Wednesday.
The term of the eight elected members ended on February 10, before MoD extended it to August 10. With the second extension, the term will now end on February 10, 2021.
Citing administrative compulsions as the reason for not conducting the elections, MoD deputy director (Q&C)
Rajesh Kumar Sah
, notified that the central government has extended term of all the 56 cantonment boards by another six months from August 10.
The elections to SCB were held in 2015. A political analyst told TOI that
Centre
has extended the term as it may be planning to conduct the elections on party symbols.
Apart from the ruling TRS, opposition parties, including Bharatiya Janata Party and Congress, are demanding that political parties should be allowed to compete in the cantonment board elections.
Hours before the MoD orders were released, SCB vice-president J Rama Krishna met the
top brass
in the MoD in Delhi and urged them to extend the tenure of the elected representatives.
“We welcome MoD’s decision to extend the term by another six months. Now we can complete all pending works,” Rama Krishan told TOI.
The term of the eight elected members ended on February 10, before MoD extended it to August 10. With the second extension, the term will now end on February 10, 2021
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