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Congress cadre begin celebrations at Gandhi Bhavan in Hyderabad.

The Congress has been leading in the Telangana Assembly elections. As of 11:30 a.m. the BRS has taken the second place with 37 seats followed by BJP with leads in 9 seats. The AIMIM and CPI has been leading in one seat each. 

As on round 2 of counting, Congress candidate Mynampally Hanumanth Rao trails. BRS candidate takes the lead and BJP has been pushed to the third spot. 

After publicly criticising BRS leader Harish Rao, he shifted to Congress. His son is contesting as Congress candidate from Medak constituency. He is a strong critic of both KTR and Hairsh Rao. Mr. Hanumanth Rao is a strong candidate from the constituency. However, he is currently trailing. 

BJP nominee and sitting MLA from Huzurabad Eatala Rajender was trailing in the third place in the high stakes contest. BRS Kaushik Reddy is leading by a margin of 2379 votes over Congress party’s nominee Voditala Pranav at the end of third round.

Eatala Rajender, once a close aide of Chandrashekar Rao, switched to the BJP giving the saffron party a much-needed boost in the State. However, his entry created ripples in the State BJP unit as some leaders felt new entrants were getting higher ranks in the party. The Central leadership stepped in to create unity in the party before the elections.

Eatala Rajender was a prominent leader in BRS. Mr. Rajender was the Health Minister during the pandemic. He has quit the party and the Ministry. He contested from the BJP banner in the Huzurabad by-election and won. 

Apart from Huzurabad, he is also contesting against BRS president and Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao from Gajwel constituency in this elections.

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Gangula Kamalakar of the BRS takes lead by 2405 votes over his nearest rival BJP’s Bandi Sanjay at the end of the third round in Karimnagar Assembly constituency. 

Bandi Sanjay Kumar is Karimnagar MP and former State chief of BJP. Ahead of polls, BJP central leadership removed him and appointed Kishan Reddy as the State party chief.

BRS’s K.T. Rama Rao maintains lead over Congress party’s K.K. Mahender Reddy with a slender margin at the end of the second round in Sircilla constituency. 

All eyes are on the key Assembly constituency of Sircilla, the textile hub of Telangana, formerly known as “Sirishala” meaning wealth hub, in the bygone era.

Situated on the banks of the Manair river, Sircilla earned the dubious distinction as the “epicentre” of weavers’ suicides” due to crisis in power loom sector in the late 1990s and early 2000s in the erstwhile united Andhra Pradesh.

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The Congress has been leading in the early trends followed by the BRS party in the Telangana Assembly elections, according to the ECI site. 

The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) Commissioner and District Election Officer Ronald Rose inspected several counting centres in the city to monitor arrangements for the counting. Speaking to the media, Mr. Rose said that the postal ballot was counted first at 8 a.m., followed by the electronic voting machines counting at 9 a.m. 

A pre-poll survey by Aaraa Poll Strategies Private Limited says the Congress is set to emerge as the single largest party with its least predicted number of seats very close to the magic figure. It predicted defeat of the Chief Minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao in the hands of his rival from Bharatiya Janata Party K. Venkata Ramana Reddy in Kamareddy, though he could win Gajwel.

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As of 9:55 a.m., the Congress party has been leading in 31 seats followed by the BRS in 21 seats. 

Earlier today, the BRS took lead, however the congress went ahead the party, that has been ruling the State since its formation. 

(Source: ECI website)

An LED monitor has been installed at the counting centre in Karimnagar. 

Counting of votes is underway across the State with high security and the early trends show that the Congress has been leading followed by BRS. 

The Congress party has been leading in 15 seats so far in the Telangana Assembly elections. 

BRS party follows Congress by leading in 9 seats and the BJP has been leading in one seat so far. 

(Source: ECI website)

Contesting candidates along with their agents from Suryapet district assemble at the counting hall. Congress candidate Ramreddy Damodar Reddy and BJP’s Sankineni Venkateswara Rao were also present.

People in Hyderabad settle down to watch the election counting live. 

The first round of results are expected to be declared soon. 

CEO Vikas Raj said, “Postal ballot counting has started everywhere. Counting of votes from EVMs will follow. All arrangements are in place.”

On the irregularity in Ibrahimpatnam Returning Office 

“Complaints were received regarding Ibrahimpatnam issue. The District Election Officer has visited the place and inquired. The total postal ballot account was shown to all the candidates and they were satisfied.”

The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) Commissioner and District Election Officer Ronald Rose inspected several counting centres in the city to monitor arrangements for the ​Telangana Assembly elections​ counting. 

Speaking to the media, Mr. Rose said that the postal ballot will be counted first at from 8 a.m., followed by the electronic voting machines counting at 9 a.m. The first round of results is likely to be out by 9: 30 a.m.

It would have been a routine contest in Kamareddy Assembly constituency but for the presence of two leaders in the fray — BRS president and Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao and State Congress chief A. Revanth Reddy. The political battlefield in Kamareddy has suddenly electrified with the two political heavyweights ready to take on each other on November 30 and with a first-timer — Katipally Venkataramana Reddy of BJP — also entering the fray

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An increase of 454% was seen in overall seizures during this election season in Telangana.

Official figures revealed that cash, freebies, narcotics and metals worth ₹469.63 crore were seized this year, as opposed to ₹103 crore in 2018. Sharing the comparative report on seizures, State DGP Anjani Kumar said that from October 9 to December 1, officials registered 11,859 FIRs.

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Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) of Telangana Vikas Raj assured that all arrangements have been made in order to conduct the counting smoothly.

At the counting centre, the inner layer of the security will be taken care of by the Central forces while the outer layer will see the reserved police of the State. 

The State police will control the third layer of security at the centres, including the vehicular traffic around it. As many as 40 companies of Central Armed Police Forces have been deployed to guard the strong rooms. Vikas Raj said that the EVMs were sealed and kept in total security with CCTV surveillance in the presence of the candidates or their party representatives.

The CEO said there will be 1,766 counting tables with 14 counting tables each for every constituency. Six constituencies with more than 500 polling stations will be covered with 28 tables.

Each table will have one counting supervisor, one micro-observer and two counting assistants. For counting postal ballots 131 returning officers will be deployed. This time, more postal ballots have been polled in some constituencies, and with many candidates, the process may stretch a bit.

In the wake of exit polls predicting an edge to the Congress in the Telangana Assembly elections, the Congress high command has sent Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister and KPCC president D.K. Shivakumar along with three other Ministers — B. Nagendra, N.S. Boseraju and B. Z. Zameer Ahmed Khan — to Hyderabad as a precautionary measure to monitor the situation on Sunday. 

Mr. Shivakumar has been asked to keep all party leaders together and on the same page to prevent poaching of party legislators by the BRS.

Police cordon off a portion of road near the JNTU College of Fine Arts which is the counting centre for the Nampally Constituency on Sunday morning. 

Watch as election officials bring the postal ballots to the counting centre in Warangal as the counting of votes in Telangana Assembly elections is set to begin soon. 

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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi asks all candidates, who contested in the polls, to visit the counting booths today. 

Mr. Gandhi also held a virtual meeting with senior party leaders on Saturday and asked them to be vigilant, party sources said.

PTI

The Congress party on Saturday had appointed observers to coordinate meetings of its legislature party in Telangana as the results are set to be declared today.

The party chief had appointed Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar, Deepa Das Munshi, Ajoy Kumar, K. Muraleedharan and K.J. George as the observers.

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On Telangana elections verdict day, Congress leader Mallu Ravi in Hyderabad confidently says, ”Congress will win 75-95 seats in the state. BRS might get 15-20 seats. BJP might get 6-7 seats.”

In the previous Assembly elections, the party had won 19 seats while the BRS won the polls with 88 seats. 

View | ​Vote sharing in Telangana Assembly in 2018​. 

Back in 2018, the Telangana Assembly was dominated by the BRS with 88 seats, followed by Congress with 19 seats, AIMIM with 9 and TDP bagged 2 seats. Meanwhile, the BJP, AIFB and an independent candidate won 1 seat each. 

The ​outcome of the Assembly elections in the four crucial States of Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Telangana​ will be known on December 3, giving a peep into the possible political permutations and combinations in store for the Lok Sabha election in 2024.

The counting of votes will begin at 8 a.m. for 230 seats in ​Madhya Pradesh​, 90 seats in ​Chhattisgarh​, 119 seats in ​Telangana​ and 199 seats in ​Rajasthan​, where the election to one seat was postponed owing to the death of a candidate. The counting will be held amid tight security and only people holding valid passes will be allowed to enter the counting centres, election officials said.

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