Kurnool’s corporation grew from 52 wards to 68 on a GO. A stay has parked that number short of a booth.

The corporation on the Kurnool side of the combined districts now has 68 wards on a government order. It still has 52 wards on a court file. That gap is not a polling date. It is the reason this desk will not print one.

Urban terms in the combined Kurnool and Nandyal districts ended on 23 March. Since then the coalition government under Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu has been preparing local-body polls. Preparing is not notifying. The public facts this desk holds do not contain a State Election Commission notification, a last date for Form B, or a calendar for these towns. Anyone printing those dates today is guessing.

The urban map that is being prepared is specific. One municipal corporation: Kurnool. Seven municipalities: Adoni, Yemmiganur, Nandyal, Dhone, Allagadda, Atmakur and Nandikotkur. Two nagar panchayats: Gudur and Bethamcherla. That is the whole urban house of the two districts.

In April this year the government issued orders increasing ward numbers and carried out delimitation. The Assembly separately resolved to elect municipal corporation mayors and municipal chairpersons directly, replacing the older indirect election by corporators and councillors. A voter in those towns, if a poll is held, will be asked to choose a chair, not only a ward member.

On Wednesday, 19 August, the government issued G.O. Rt. No. 1065 for 33.33 percent Backward Class reservation in urban local bodies. Rural local bodies stand at 34 percent. Those two percentages sit in the same week as the ward arithmetic.

Officials are preparing to publish voter lists on 3 September. A special intensive revision, SIR, is running in the district until 3 October. For municipal polls they are not waiting for that finish line. They are using voters on the rolls up to 1 January 2026, split ward-wise. Officials say they have fixed the old problem of one house’s voters sitting in two or three wards.

The corporation election is the file that is not moving. G.O. Ms. No. 64 dated 24 May raised Kurnool Corporation wards from 52 to 68 using the 2011 census. A city resident went to court saying ward redivision while a census is on would affect the census. The court issued a stay. This desk does not have the petitioner’s name and will not invent one. Officials say they will announce the increase subject to the court.

About 39 municipalities in the state have similar stays. The government has argued, citing an earlier Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation judgment, that those stays should be lifted. Judgment has been reserved. Whether Kurnool corporation polls happen depends on that court. The other urban bodies in the two districts are not on that same stay sentence in the facts held here. The corporation is.

The ward table the officials are working with is a before-and-after, with an approximate Backward Class column at 33.33 percent.

Kurnool: 52 to 68, BC 22–23. Adoni: 42 to 52, BC 17–18. Yemmiganur: 35 to 44, BC 14–15. Gudur: 20 to 23, BC 7–8. Kurnool district total: 149 to 187, BC 62–63.

Nandyal: 42 to 52, BC 17–18. Dhone: 32 to 36, BC 11–12. Nandikotkur: 29 to 32, BC 10–11. Atmakur: 28 to 32, BC 10–11. Allagadda: 27 to 32, BC 10–11. Nandyal district total: 158 to 184, BC 61–62.

Those Backward Class seats are a range because 33.33 percent of a ward total does not always land on a whole chair. The government has written the percentage. The table writes the band.

Coalition arithmetic is already being spoken in the two districts. Two or three municipal chair seats are to be given to the Bharatiya Janata Party and Jana Sena. Adoni has a BJP MLA, Dr Parthasarathi. BJP leaders have already asked the high command for the Adoni chair. They also want Yemmiganur. A want is not a Form B. Form B has not been dated.

The district Collector is the district election officer. The corporation commissioner is an additional election officer. Municipal commissioners are additional election officers. One returning officer and one assistant returning officer are to be posted for every two to four wards — a senior gazette officer as RO, a junior gazette officer as ARO. Combined districts need about 125 to 150 returning officers and the same number of assistant returning officers.

That is the machinery that can be assembled without a poll date. Lists on 3 September. Rolls frozen at 1 January 2026. A 33.33 percent Backward Class order dated 19 August. Direct chairs. A stay on 68 wards. A reserved judgment on a clutch of similar stays. Until the court writes, Kurnool Corporation’s election is a number on a government order and a number on a stay. The other towns can be prepared. The corporation waits on a bench.