Assembly elections in Telangana are set to be held on Thursday and a three-way competition is anticipated among the ruling Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS), Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), and Congress across the state.
With less than 12 hours to go for the Telangana Assembly polls, the Chief Electoral Officer for the state, Vikas Raj, on Wednesday said about 12,000 critical polling stations have been identified in the state where additional forces will be deployed.
The exit polls due on Thursday are likely to give indications of the Assembly election outcomes and its impact on the crucial General election in 2024.
The action was taken following the complaint of Congress party accusing the Balaghat District Election Officer of opening postal ballot votes before the counting day. The suspended official has been identified as Himmat Singh, who is posted as a tehsildar.
Hyderabad district collector Anudeep Durishetty announced the holiday for all educational institutions in Hyderabad. Schools and colleges will reopen on December 1.
As the assembly election results day nears, Mizoram ramps up preparations for counting of votes. Nearly 4000 personnel will be involved in the counting of votes of Mizoram assembly polls on December 3, said Mizoram Chief Electoral Officer Madhup Vyas.
Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar on Monday said that the Congress party has an edge in Rajasthan and will form its government 'comfortably' in all the other poll-going states.
Union Minister and Bharatiya Janata Party Telangana chief G Kishan Reddy on Monday said that Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao and his son KT Rama Rao are going to lose their respective constituencies in the November 30 state assembly elections.
Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday targeted BRS and Congress in poll-bound Telangana and said BJP will make a person from the Backward Class community Chief Minister of the state if the party is voted to power in the assembly polls
In an interview with ANI, the AIMIM chief said that there is empirical data on the social and educational backwardness of Muslims it is given after late PS Krishnan's report.