Vizianagaram seeks shift of Mayor poll to October 29 over Sirimanotsavam

Devotees at the Sirimanotsavam of Goddess Pydithalli Ammavaru in Vizianagaram. File | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement

The Vizianagaram District Collector and Superintendent of Police have asked the State Election Commission (SEC) to move polling in the Vizianagaram Municipal Corporation from October 28 to October 29 because of the Pydithalli Ammavari Sirimanu Utsavam.

Polling in the corporation is scheduled for October 28 along with 99 other urban local bodies, for which the election notification was issued on October 14.