Polling is in progress for 3 seats within the Telangana Legislative Council, with voters casting their ballots in academics’ and graduates’ constituencies on Thursday.
Since 8 am, voting has been continuing peacefully throughout the Medak-Nizamabad-Adilabad-Karimnagar and Warangal-Khammam-Nalgonda areas. By 12 pm, voter turnout within the Medak-Nizamabad-Adilabad-Karimnagar constituencies stood at 19.20 % for graduates and 33.98 % for academics. In the meantime, the Warangal-Khammam-Nalgonda academics’ constituency recorded a better turnout of 48.68 %.
Polling will proceed till 4 pm in the present day.
The key contest is between the candidates of the ruling Congress social gathering and the Opposition Bharatiya Janata Celebration (BJP). As many as 56 candidates are within the fray within the Medak-Nizamabad-Adilabad-Karimnagar graduates’ constituency. Whereas elections to academics’ segments are held on a non-party foundation, 15 candidates have joined the fray within the Medak-Nizamabad-Adilabad-Karimnagar academics’ constituency. Additionally, 19 candidates are within the fray within the Warangal-Khammam-Nalgonda academics’ constituency. Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) has opted to keep away from the competition.
A complete of three,55,159 graduates are eligible to solid their votes within the Medak-Nizamabad-Adilabad-Karimnagar graduates’ constituency, whereas the Medak-Nizamabad-Adilabad-Karimnagar academics’ constituency and the Warangal-Khammam-Nalgonda academics’ constituency have 27,088 voters and 25,759 voters respectively. The polling is being completed by poll papers. Lecturers, who had been graduates earlier than 2021, in Medak-Nizamabad-Adilabad-Karimnagar are eligible to solid two votes — one for the academics’ constituency and the opposite for the graduates’ constituency. The counting of votes in all three constituencies might be held on March 3.
Congress and the BJP are engaged in a direct battle within the Medak-Nizamabad-Adilabad-Karimnagar graduates’ constituency, which is presently represented by senior Congress chief and former Minister T. Jeevan Reddy. The Congress has fielded V. Narender Reddy, who’s pitted in opposition to BJP’s C. Anji Reddy. Whereas the ruling Congress social gathering is assured of successful the seats comfortably, the BJP too is assured because it had gained all 4 Lok Sabha seats from this phase.
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