Telangana Election Result 2023: After several exit polls gave Congress an advantage over the ruling Bharat Rashtra Samiti (BRS), all eyes are on the southern state of Telangana. Results of elections to the 119 seats for the Telangana Legislative Assembly will be known today. Starting with postal ballots, counting of votes polled in the November 30 Assembly elections will be taken up at 8 AM and from 8.30 AM counting of votes in EVMs will begin, said Chief Electoral Officer Vikas Raj.
Polling across the 119 seats took place on November 30 and witnessed a voter turnout of 70.60 per cent. As counting begins, it will be clear whether voters would give Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao-led regime a third term or the Congress will resurge, or if BJP will came into play given there is a fractured verdict. All will be known by evening.
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Every counting centre will have 14 counting tables, except for six constituencies where the number of polling stations is more than 500 and at such places 28 counting tables will be used. Every counting centre will have three cordons consisting of central security forces and state armed police force on the day of counting. All the EVMs have been sealed and 40 companies of CAPF have been deployed to guard the EVM strongrooms and for the counting, and CCTV cameras have been put up in strongrooms, said the CEO.
In the 2018 elections, the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS), earlier known as Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS), made a thumping return to power bagging 87 seats, way ahead of the magic figure of 60. The Prajakutami (People’s Alliance), forged by the Congress, Telugu Desam Party (TDP), Telangana Jana Samithi and CPI, won 22 seats, while AIMIM secured seven seats. KCR returned for a second term as chief minister after being unanimously elected as leader of the TRS Legislature Party.
While incumbent Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar-led BRS is trying to come to power for a third consecutive term, Opposition Congress under the leadership of state president A Revanth Reddy, has mounted an all-out effort to oust the ruling party. The BRS has been in power since 2014 when the previous UPA government at the Centre carved Telangana out of Andhra Pradesh. The BJP has also conducted an elaborate campaign with a host of top leaders, led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and state BJP president G Kishan Reddy, addressing rallies in the state.
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As soon as the poll schedule was announced on October 9, the Model Code of Conduct (MCC) came into force. The Election Commission of India (ECI) had announced the poll schedule for all the five states. The ECI, in an official release, has meanwhile, stated that as on November 29, law enforcement agencies have seized cash, gold, liquor, freebies among others all worth about Rs 759 crore in the state ever since the MCC came into force.