Hyderabad, July 25: Curtains came down today on campaign for by-elections to the 12 Assembly constituencies in Telangana region of Andhra Pradesh, scheduled to be held on Tuesday.
The campaign has ended at 5 pm, so the contesting candidates should not organise any public meetings any more, Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) I V Subba Rao said.
The campaign for the bypolls, necessitated by the resignation of the 12 sitting MLAs in support of separate Telangana demand, centred around the same issue. Ten MLAs among those who quit were from TRS and one each from TDP and BJP.
Faced with the challenge of retaining the seats where its MLAs quit, the TRS has harped on the separate statehood demand by projecting its legislators as martyrs who sacrificed their posts for the sake of Telangana.
–Agencies