IN THE HIGH COURT FOR THE STATE OF TELANGANA AT HYDERABAD THE HONOURABLE SMT JUSTICE T.MADHAVI DEVI WRIT PETITION NO. 37380 OF 2025 DATED 04.12.2025 Between:

Gaddam Ramesh @ Ramesh Reddy Gaddam.

…. Petitioner And State of Telangana, Rep. by its Principal Secretary, Panchayatraj and Rural Development, Secretariat Building, Hyderabad and Eight Others.

…Respondents

ORDER

In this writ petition, the petitioner is seeking a direction to the respondents to receive the nomination of the petitioner in view of the fact that the petitioner has already made a representation/application for inclusion of his name in the Voter List.

2. Learned counsel for the petitioner submitted that the petitioner was issued with Election ID Card with EPIC No.FGW2567188, as a resident of H.No.1-117, Ankapur, Aar T.C.Colony, Armoor, Nizamabad District and without any notice and without any reason, the name of the petitioner has been deleted from the Voter List and subsequently, the petitioner has made an application on 24.11.2025 i.e., well before the date of election and on the ground that his name was not finding place in the electoral rolls, his nomination has not been received. He further submitted that the respondent may be directed to receive the nomination and thereafter pass orders on the same.

3. Learned Standing Counsel for State Election Commission, submitted that the petitioner has made the representation only one day before election notification and since his name was not finding place in the electoral rolls of the concerned Assembly Constituency as mandated under Section 11 of the Telangana Panchayat Raj Act, the nomination of the petitioner cannot be considered.

4. Learned Standing Counsel for Election Commission of India is also heard.

5. Having regard to the rival contentions and also Section 19 of the Panchayat Raj Act that no person shall be qualified for election as a member of the Gram Panchayat unless his name appears on the electoral rolls of the concerned Gram Panchayat and is not less than 21 years of age. Further correction of electoral rolls under Section 22 or for inclusion of names in electoral rolls under Section 23 of the Representation of the Peoples Act of 1950, it is required that the applications are filed to the Electoral Registration Officer for correction/ inclusion of the names in the electoral rolls and Sub Section (3) of Section 23 provides that no amendment, transposition or deletion of any entry shall be made under Section 22 and no direction for inclusion of the name in the electoral rolls of the constituency shall be given under this Section, after the last date for making nominations for an election in the constituency or in the Parliamentary constituency within which that constituency is comprised and before the completion of that election.

6. Section 11 of the Panchayat Raj Act provides for the preparation and publication of electoral rolls for a Gram Panchayat and the proviso thereunder prescribes that any amendments, transposition or deletion of any entries in the electoral rolls, or any inclusion of the names in the electoral rolls in the Assembly constituency is concerned made by the Electoral Registration Officer under Section 22 and 23 of the Representation of the Peoples Act, as the case may be upto the date of election notification, shall be carried out in the electoral rolls of Gram Panchayat.

7. In this case, admittedly, the petitioner has submitted the application only on 24.11.2025 i.e., only one day before the date of election notification and therefore, there was no occasion for the Electoral Registration Officer to have included his name in the electoral roll of the concerned Assembly Constituency and thereafter in the electoral rolls of concerned Gram Panchayat before 25.11.2025 i.e., date of election notification. Therefore, there is no prim-facie case made out in favour of the petitioner for any interference at this stage.

8. Accordingly, the writ petition is dismissed. There shall be no order as to