Meanwhile, BJP workers and leaders demonstrated in front of the office. The National ST Commission has sought a report from the district authorities on the death of the candidate, while the BJP raised the issue in Parliament as well.
The BRS president also requested the SIT to conduct the questioning in his farmhouse in the Medak district instead of Hyderabad.
The draft development document, which had earlier been presented by the Thiruvananthapuram Corporation to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, was released under the leadership of Thiruvananthapuram Mayor VV Rajesh on Wednesday.
According to the notification issued by the Commission, elections will be conducted for 49 urban local bodies, including six Municipal Corporations, 19 Municipal Councils and 24 Nagar Panchayats.
The Mahayuti alliance secured control of 25 out of 29 municipal corporations with the BJP emerging as the single largest party in majority of them.
"The BJP must explain how such alliances came about. You (the media) should ask the BJP how these alliances get formed. Their leaders may have taken these decisions for power. Senior BJP leaders should take action against this," Shinde told media persons here.
Incidentally, among those who got elected "unopposed" are 45 BJP candidates, 19 Shinde-led Sena candidates and two Ajit PAwar-led NCP candidates.
Maharashtra Congress president Harashwardhan Sapkal told media persons on Thursday that talks have begun with the Prakash Ambedkar-led Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi (VBA) and the Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena to form an alliance for the forthcoming municipal corporation elections, including the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC).
The counting of votes for the Haryana municipal elections commenced on Wednesday.
According to data available with the State Election Commission (SEC), Trinamul Congress got 62.44 per cent of the votes, BJP 13.42 per cent, CPI-M 11.83 per cent and Congress 5.06 per cent votes.
