Election campaign in Telangana region will come to an end at 4 p.m. today. Voting will take place on Wednesday 30th April in all the 10 districts of Telangana for electing 17 MPs to Loksabha and 119 MLAs to State Assembly. All the arrangements for polling have been made. Electronic Voting Machines and other materials will be given to election staff tomorrow. Police constables and Home Guards will be posted at every polling booth.
Talking to newsmen yesterday evening, Mr. Bhanwar Lal, IAS, Chief Electoral Officer of A.P. told that for the first phase of polling there are more than 15 contestants in 8 Lok Sabha and 31 Assembly seats. From Amberpet Assembly constituency there are 32 candidates. In all for 17 Loksabha seats there are 265 candidates and for 119 Assembly seats there are 1669 candidates. For the first phase of polling 30518 polling booths has been setup wherein 2,81,74055 voters would cast their votes. In 20 thousand polling booths, live webcasting and in the remaining polling booths videography will be done. At every polling booth micro observers have also been posted.
–Siasat News