The Election Commission announced on Monday that the biennial election for one seat in the Telangana Legislative Council will take place on April 23.
The election is for the Hyderabad Local Authorities MLC Constituency, which became vacant after the term of Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) MLC MS Prabhakar expires on May 1.
Nominations for the election will be accepted until April 4. The scrutiny of nominations will take place on April 7. The votes will be counted on April 25. The Election Commission also stated that the Model Code of Conduct has come into effect immediately in the concerned constituency.
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In a separate development, on March 21, BRS leader MLC K Kavitha led a protest in the Telangana Legislative Council against the ₹1.5 lakh crore loan taken by the Telangana government under Chief Minister Revanth Reddy in the past 15 months. Kavitha accused the Chief Minister of misleading the public about the state’s borrowing.
She claimed that Reddy had made "false" statements when he asserted that loans totalling ₹1.58 lakh crore were taken to repay the debts incurred by the previous government, led by K Chandrashekar Rao (KCR). Kavitha argued that this was a "blatant lie" and stated that the BRS had already disproven it by reviewing the budget documents. She demanded that the government release a white paper outlining the loans acquired during the past 15 months.
Polling for three seats in the Telangana Legislative Council took place earlier, with voters casting ballots in the teachers’ and graduates’ constituencies.
Voting was peaceful across the regions of Medak-Nizamabad-Adilabad-Karimnagar and Warangal-Khammam-Nalgonda. Voter turnout in the Medak-Nizamabad-Adilabad-Karimnagar graduates’ constituency stood at 19.20 per cent, while the teachers’ constituency saw a higher turnout of 33.98%. The Warangal-Khammam-Nalgonda teachers’ constituency recorded the highest turnout at 48.68 per cent.
The key contest was between candidates from the ruling Congress party and the BJP.
A total of 56 candidates contested in the Medak-Nizamabad-Adilabad-Karimnagar graduates’ constituency. For the teachers’ constituency, elections were non-party-based, with 15 candidates in the Medak-Nizamabad-Adilabad-Karimnagar constituency and 19 in the Warangal-Khammam-Nalgonda constituency. The BRS chose not to participate.
A total of 3,55,159 graduates were eligible to vote in the Medak-Nizamabad-Adilabad-Karimnagar graduates’ constituency. Meanwhile, 27,088 voters were eligible in the Medak-Nizamabad-Adilabad-Karimnagar teachers’ constituency and 25,759 in the Warangal-Khammam-Nalgonda teachers’ constituency.
The voting was carried out using ballot papers. Teachers in Medak-Nizamabad-Adilabad-Karimnagar who were graduates before 2021 could cast two votes — one for the teachers’ constituency and another for the graduates’ constituency.
The vote counting took place on March 3. In the Medak-Nizamabad-Adilabad-Karimnagar graduates’ constituency, a direct battle was fought between Congress’ V Narender Reddy and BJP’s C Anji Reddy. The seat was previously held by Congress leader T Jeevan Reddy.
Both Congress and BJP were confident of winning, with Congress believing it would win easily and the BJP confident due to its Lok Sabha wins in the region.
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