Telangana HC grants interim stay on local body polls after petitions challenge 42% Backward Class reservations

Telangana High Court on Thursday granted an interim stay on the notification for local body elections in the state.

The bench allowed petitions challenging the state government’s order providing 42 per cent reservation to the Backward Classes in local bodies.

The state government has been given four weeks to file a counter-affidavit, and the petitioner has been given two weeks to respond to the government.

“The counter should be submitted in 15 days for all parties…,” Advocate Govardhan Reddy told ANI.

The High Court has been hearing petitions challenging the government order providing 42% reservations to Backward Classes in local bodies.

The Telangana assembly had, in August this year, passed the Panchayat Raj (Amendment) Bill, 2025 and Telangana Municipalities (Amendment) Bill 2025