GHMC Elections 2020 Reside Updates: Vote casting On In Prime-Stakes Hyderabad Civic Frame Election
GHMC Elections 2020: Vote casting started at 7 am.
Hyderabad:
Over 74 lakh eligible electorate are are eligible to vote nowadays within the election to the Higher Hyderabad Municipal Company or GHMC. Polling started at 7 am. The election is happening after greater than every week of intense and vitriolic marketing campaign. The civic frame election is a high-stakes combat for the ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi, the BJP, seeking to make inroads, and Asaduddin Owaisi’s AIMIM. This has been probably the most fiercely and bitterly fought municipal elections ever in Hyderabad with a high-octane marketing campaign by means of the BJP that flew in nationwide leaders – like Amit Shah, JP Nadda and Yogi Adityanath – hoping to persuade Hyderabad {that a} trade was once wanted.
Listed here are the reside updates on the Hyderabad municipal company election:
GHMC Elections LIVE: Poll Vote casting, Now not EVMs
The Telangana State Election Fee is carrying out the election with poll papers as a substitute of EVMs as a result of the coronavirus disaster. Voter IDs or one of the most 18 selection photograph identification may also be proven. Aged electorate and girls with youngsters don’t need to wait in queues. There is not any provision for on-line balloting even though postal ballots were allowed.
Telangana Minister KT Rama Rao, who case his vote this morning, suggested folks to workout their franchise.
GHMC Elections 2020 LIVE: 1,122 Applicants, 150 Divisions
1,122 applicants are contesting within the Higher Hyderabad Municipal Company election. The election is happening in 150 divisions unfold over 4 districts.
GHMC Elections LIVE: Polling Preparations
Detailed preparations were made for nowadays’s balloting by means of the Telangana State Election Fee with 48,000 polling group of workers and 52,500 police group of workers deployed.
Most sensible BJP leaders who had campaigned for the Hyderabad civic frame polls:
Union House Minister Amit Shah,
BJP leader JP Nadda
Uttar Pradesh Leader Minister Yogi Adityanath
Prakash Javadekar
Smriti Irani
G Kishan Reddy
Tejaswi Surya
AIMIM leader Asaduddin Owaisi mentioned after balloting, “I attraction to the folks of Hyderabad to forged their vote nowadays to reinforce democracy.”
Hyderabad Municipal Company Polls: Union Minister G Kishan Reddy Votes
“Following all Covid Protection Protocols, forged my vote at the side of my circle of relatives at Kachiguda Polling Station previous this morning. Vote casting is our constitutional proper and all people should workout it within the hobby of an ready management,” Mr Reddy tweeted after casting his vote.
Union Minister of State for House Affairs G Kishan Reddy ready in a queue at Deeksha Style College in Kachiguda to forged his vote.
