Published - January 20, 2026 05:22 pm IST - HYDERABAD Secunderabad Cantonment MLA Sri Ganesh leads a protest demanding the merger of the Cantonment area with the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC), near the Ambedkar statue at Karkhana in Secunderabad on Tuesday (January 20, 2026) | Photo Credit: SIDDHANT THAKUR Secunderabad Cantonment MLA, Sri Ganesh Narayanan, has intensified his demand to merge civil areas of the Secunderabad Cantonment Board (SCB) be merged with the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) before the upcoming Urban Local Body (ULB) elections, saying that any further delay would deny residents their democratic right to elect local representatives. The MLA began a hunger strike in Hyderabad on Tuesday (January 20, 2026) accusing the Union Government of repeatedly postponing the merger and neglecting the welfare of the Cantonment residents. The SCB polls were last held in January 2015 and the elections were not conducted since 2020.
