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Kotia: Voters in Andhra Pradesh and Odisha can soon cast two votes with the general and state elections being held simultaneously but there are some who may cast four...
Welcome to the Kotia cluster, a group of 21 disputed villages crammed together in remote hills on the Andhra-Odisha border, about 150 km from Vishakhapatnam..
Here, residents say they can vote for two state governments and also cast two votes for the one at the Centre, if they choose to..
Reacting to the objectionable remarks, AP Deputy CM and local (Salur) MLA Rajanna Dora then demanded an apology from Pradhan, while reminding him that the territorial dispute was sub judice, with the Supreme Court having ordered status quo which allows officials of both governments to operate in the disputed area.. Laxman Rao Vanthala of Dorala Tadivalasa, who seems to prefer to be on the Andhra side, says that Odisha officials objected to the local residents voting in the 2021 Andhra panchayat polls, citing the Covid-19 pandemic as the reason...
Let the two governments sit across the table if not once, twice, four or five times to arrive at a resolution so that we can firmly say we belong to Andhra or Odisha, he says.. In November 2021, Andhra CM Jagan met Odisha CM Patnaik in Bhubaneshwar, where the two discussed several pending issues between the two governments, such as irrigation projects over the Vamsadhara River as well as the Kotia cluster..
