The government of Telangana has sustained a shocker from the high court with regard to the upcoming local body elections. The High Court has imposed a stay order on the GO 9 that was passed earlier.

Earlier, the Telangana government passed a new order numbered 9 and it granted 42% reservation to the BC community in the upcoming local body election.

However, a petition was filed against this GO and it came to hearing at the Telangana HC today. The court had passed a detrimental judgement in this regard and made it clear that the GO 9 must not be implemented in the coming election.

The local body elections have also been postponed till further notice while the government has been instructed to file a counter in 4 weeks time.

This dejection is the last thing that the Telangana government

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