Telangana Congress leader G Niranjan lodged a complaint against BRS MLC K Kavitha on Thursday, accusing her of violating the model code of conduct by "asking for votes" on a polling day.
Actor Jr NTR arrived with his family to cast their votes at the polling booth in P Obul Reddy Public School in Hyderabad. The actor can be seen standing in the queue with his wife and mother to cast his vote.
Volunteers being stationed at each polling booth are assisting senior citizens and differently-abled voters to cast their vote in Telangana, where polling for the 119-member assembly is currently underway.
As many as 2,290 candidates from 109 national and regional parties including 221 women and one transgender, are in the fray. Their fate will be decided by a total of 3.17 crore voters.
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.
As the countdown began to the Telangana Assembly elections on Thursday, polling paraphernalia was distributed to officials in the Nizamabad Urban Assembly constituency on Wednesday.
Polling at more than 51,000 polling booths in 199 assembly constituencies began at 7 am and ended at 6 pm, but officials said those already in queue at the polling booths were allowed to vote. The votes will be counted on December 3.