New Delhi: The state of Telangana witnessed the beginning of polling for all 119 Meeting seats on Thursday morning amid elaborate safety and logistical preparations. The voting course of started at 7 am and can finish at 6 pm. The election is a three-cornered contest amongst 2,290 candidates representing 109 nationwide and regional events, together with 221 ladies and one transgender.
The end result of the election can be determined by 3.17 crore voters who will train their franchise at 35,655 polling stations throughout the state. Out of the 103 incumbent legislators, most of them belong to the ruling Bharat Rasthra Samithi (BRS), which is aiming for a 3rd consecutive time period in energy.
The state election fee has launched a house voting facility for the primary time in Telangana for individuals with disabilities and senior residents above 80 years of age. About 27,600 voters have registered for the house voting service, which can be carried out on Thursday. One other 1,000 voters have opted for the Electronically Transmitted Postal Poll System.
On Wednesday, the state’s Chief Electoral Officer, Vikas Raj, mentioned that the election fee had made all the mandatory preparations to make sure a clean and truthful polling course of. He spoke to ANI and mentioned, “A complete of 35,655 polling stations have been put collectively in Telangana. Additionally, conforming to the directions of the Election Fee, we have now organized mannequin polling stations and all-women polling stations.”
He added, “We’ve got additionally recognized about 12,000 crucial polling stations for which we have now organized the deployment of further forces. Other than central forces, there can even be micro-observers to make sure free and truthful polling within the state. Areas declared as Left Wing Extremism (LWE)-affected will see the deployment of central forces along with state forces.”
He additionally mentioned that about 27,000 voters had already forged their votes by means of the home-voting association. “We can even prepare transportation for the returning officers to allow clean motion to their designated centres,” he mentioned. He additional mentioned that every polling station would have volunteers to help disabled and wheelchair-bound voters.
Furthermore, there can be braille posters and ballots for the visually impaired and posters in signal language for the hearing-impaired. “We’ve got made all requisite preparations for our polling employees,” he mentioned. The election is seen as a high-stakes battle for energy and status among the many three important contenders: the ruling BRS, the Congress, and the BJP.
The BRS is banking on its monitor report and guarantees of the final 10 years to win the belief of the voters. The Congress is hoping to get sufficient assist to type its first authorities within the state. The BJP can also be vying to finish the “misrule and corruption” of the BRS. A number of the outstanding candidates within the fray are Chief Minister Okay Chandrashekar Rao, his son and minister Okay T Rama Rao, state Congress President A Revanth Reddy, and BJP Lok Sabha members Bandi Sanjay Kumar and D Arvind.
If Okay Chandrashekar Rao, popularly generally known as KCR, secures one other time period in workplace, he’ll turn out to be the primary Chief Minister from a Southern state to get a 3rd consecutive time period in workplace. KCR is contesting from two seats: his authentic seat Gajwel and Kamareddy. He’s dealing with a troublesome problem from BJP chief Etela Rajender in Gajewal and Congress state unit chief Revanth Reddy in Kamareddy.
Each Etela and Revanth Reddy are additionally preventing from two seats every: the BJP chief from Huzurabad and the Congress chief from Kodangal. One of the talked-about seats is Korutla, the place BJP has fielded Lok Sabha me
