JOIN US62 percent polling recorded in Telangana Graduate MLC polls
Elections to the two MLC graduate constituencies including the Hyderabad area were held on Sunday in Telangana.
While a polling percentage of about 65 percent was recorded in Nalgonda-Warangal-Khammam, 60 percent was recorded in the Hyderabad-RangaReddy-Mahbubnagar constituency.
The ruling TRS and the opposition BJP were engaged in fierce campaigning, attacking each other over issues like jobs in the state, PSU privatization, and price rise.
In an interesting turn, Telangana IT and industries minister KT Rama Rao extended his party TRS's support to the protests led by the Vizag Steel Plant workers and the public organizations in Andhra Pradesh opposing the Narendra Modi government's bid to privatize the Navaratna PSU.
The Congress and the BJP have slammed KTR's expression of solidarity with VSP protests as an election stunt. The votes of graduate settlers from the Andhra region are seen as crucial in the MLC polls.
As many as 93 contestants were in the fray for Hyderabad-RangaReddy-Mahbubnagar, requiring a jumbo ballot paper. Sitting MLC Ramchander Rao is the BJP candidate while TRS has fielded former PM PV Narasimha Rao's daughter Surabhi Vani Devi. Veteran Congress leader and former minister Chinna Reddy is the Congress candidate. Former MLC and renowned political analyst Prof K Nageshwar is an independent candidate from there.
71 candidates contested for the Nalgonda-Warangal-Khammam seat.
The T-BJP, which is invigorated by its electoral performance in Dubbaka assembly constituency and the Hyderabad corporation recently, saying that it is confident of winning both the seats.
Counting of votes in on 17 March.
A person who is a graduate or above is eligible to vote in the MLC graduate constituency elections. In a shift from the assembly polls, the poll campaign here is largely focused on education, jobs and developmental matters.
The MLCs represent their constituents in the legislative council, the upper house of the state legislature, for a term of six years.