The 18th Lok Sabha elections will be taking place next year 2024 while the Election Commission of India has announced the date for Assembly elections in the five states in the month of November and the results will be announced in December, 2023. The final dates have been released by ECI for Assembly elections 2023. Telangana is one of the states contesting assembly elections in 2023. Telangana Assembly elections are scheduled to be held on November 30, 2023. Telangana, a newly developed state, has 17 seats for Lok Sabha elections.
It is the second time when Telangana will be the part of Lok Sabha constituency and three major parties will be fighting for 17 constituencies including, Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) previously called Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS), Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Out of 17 seats three are reserved for Scheduled Castes (SC) and two for Scheduled Tribes (ST).
Here are the list of seats in Lok Sabha elections:
- Khammam
- Karimnagar
- Nizamabad
- Zahirabad
- Nalgonda
- Medak
- Bhongir
- Malkajgiri
- Secunderabad
- Hyderabad
- Chevella
- Mahabubnagar
- Peddapalli (SC)
- Nagarkurnool (SC)
- Warangal (SC)
- Mahabubabad (ST)
- Adilabad (ST)
Telangana Assembly elections 2023
As a newly separated state, Telangana has 119 seats for Assembly elections out of which TRS won 87 seats and K Chandrasekhar Rao became the Chief Minister who was also a key player in bifurcation of Telangana from Andhra pradesh in 2014. In 2019 assembly elections the Congress allied party, Prajakutami (People’s Alliance), with Telugu Desam Party (TDP), Telangana Jana Samithi and CPI could secure just 22 seats and Bharatiya Janata Party won one seat.
The opposition parties have already started playing their bits for assembly elections as Congress will be campaigning in huge rallies from September 17, announced by the Telangana Congress president Revanth Reddy. The party is also going to conduct ‘Bhoomi Pooja’ in Telangana that aims to fight soil issues faced by farmers and the agriculture sector.