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Telangana gears up to vote on 17 LS seats in Phase 4

Over 3.31 crore voters are expected to exercise their franchise in 35,356 polling stations across the state.

News Arena Network - Hyderabad - UPDATED: May 12, 2024, 07:23 PM - 7 mins read

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Telangana gears up to vote on 17 LS seats in Phase 4

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Polling for the 17 Lok Sabha seats in Telangana was underway with voters standing in queues to exercise their franchise on Monday.

 

After a high decibel campaign, including by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and top leaders of Congress and Bharat Rashtra Samithi, polling began at 7 AM and will end by 6 PM, barring a few places where it will conclude two hours earlier.

 

The Election Commission has also made arrangements to conduct a bypoll for the Secunderabad (Cantonment) Assembly seat to be held simultaneously today.

 

A contingent of 73,000 civil police personnel, 500 sections of the state special police, 164 companies of central armed police forces, three companies of Tamil Nadu police, 2,088 officials from other departments and 7,000 home guards have been deployed as part of security measures, the Telangana DGP office said.

 

All vehicles carrying EVMs and VVPATs are fitted with GPS systems and provided invariably with armed security by central forces.

 

As many as 625 candidates, including Union Minister and Telangana Bharatiya Janata Party president G Kishan Reddy, the party’s national general secretary Bandi Sanjay Kumar and senior leader Etala Rajender are among the saffron party candidates while the Congress fielded among others, BRS turncoats Danam Nagender and K Kavya.

 

AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi is seeking re-election from the party’s bastion- the Hyderabad Lok Sabha constituency and the BJP has fielded a political novice but enthusiastic K Madhavi Latha who ran a spirited campaign.

 

Former IPS officer RS Praveen Kumar and sitting MP Nama Nageswar Rao, among others, are in the poll fray from former Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao-led BRS.

 

The Congress campaign centered around reservations for SC, ST and OBC alleging that BJP, if voted to power at the Centre again, will try to abolish quota for the above sections. It also highlighted the implementation of five out of the six Assembly poll guarantees in Telangana by the party-led government.

 

The BJP focussed mainly on how the grand old party will allegedly try to snatch away reservations and allot it to “Muslims” and controversial comments by Congress leader Sam Pitroda on “race and skin colours of Indians”.

 

According to State Chief Electoral Officer Vikas Raj, about Rs 320 crore worth of cash, freebies and other articles have been seized during the period of poll code.

 

Over 3.31 crore voters are expected to exercise their franchise in 35,356 polling stations across the state.

 

The counting of votes will be taken up on June 4 nationwide.

 

Telangana recorded 62 per cent voter turnout in the 2019 Parliamentary elections.

 

The BRS (then TRS) won nine seats, BJP- four, Congress- three and AIMIM- one seat in the 2019 general elections.

 

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