KADAPA: Kadapa district leaders of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) met at their party office in Ravindranagar here on Sunday to chalk out their strategy for the forthcoming Kadapa Municipal Corporation elections.
The meeting took place following indications that the State Election Commission will conduct municipal polls throughout the state soon after completion of the ongoing gram panchayat elections.
BJP state leader Bandi Prabhakar alleged that certain police officials are threatening to file cases against their activists at grassroots levels for discouraging them from participating in local body elections. He said they will lodge a complaint with the State Election Commission in this regard.
Prabhakar asked authorities to relieve such officers from their electoral responsibilities and post honest staff to ensure free, fair and impartial elections. None of the candidates who want to compete at the division level need be afraid, he said, assuring that BJP will stand by…