{"id":1050,"date":"2026-10-25T07:06:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T01:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bulletnews.in\/?p=1050"},"modified":"2026-10-25T07:06:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T01:36:00","slug":"andhra-pradesh-local-body-polls-where-things-stand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bulletnews.in\/telugu\/andhra-pradesh-local-body-polls-where-things-stand\/","title":{"rendered":"Andhra Pradesh local body polls: where things stand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Andhra Pradesh&#x27;s local body election process moved ahead on October 24, with nominations closing for four urban local bodies. Nominations for ZPTC and MPTC seats ended peacefully in Ongole, and police chiefs in Markapur and Chirala inspected nomination centres.<\/p>\n<p>Polls for ZPTCs and MPTCs may be postponed to November 5, and the State has announced a five-day schedule for reservation in 23 urban local bodies.<\/p>\n<p>The politics is heated. Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu has accused the YSRCP of resorting to violence, while YSRCP leader Ambati Rambabu alleges that the State Election Commission is acting under the chief minister&#x27;s influence. Neither claim has been independently verified.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andhra Pradesh&#x27;s local body election process moved ahead on October 24, with nominations closing for four urban local bodies. Nominations for ZPTC and MPTC seats ended peacefully in Ongole, and police chiefs in Markapur and Chirala inspected nomination centres.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,3],"tags":[36],"class_list":["post-1050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-andhra-pradesh","category-politics","tag-local-body-polls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bulletnews.in\/telugu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bulletnews.in\/telugu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bulletnews.in\/telugu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bulletnews.in\/telugu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bulletnews.in\/telugu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bulletnews.in\/telugu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bulletnews.in\/telugu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bulletnews.in\/telugu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bulletnews.in\/telugu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}