All Arrangements In Place For Elections In Telangana, AP

The stage is set for the fourth phase of polling for the Lok Sabha elections on Monday.

Voting will be held for 96 Lok Sabha seats spread over nine States, including Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, along with one seat of the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir.

The voting for single phase Assembly elections in Andhra Pradesh for 175 seats, and for 28 Assembly seats and four Lok Sabha seats of Odisha, will also happen in this phase.

Over 19 lakh polling officials will be deployed across 1,92,000 polling stations. The voting will begin at 7 AM and end at 6 PM.

The polling time in certain Assembly segments of the 17 Parliamentary constituencies of Telangana has been increased to improve the voters' participation.

In Telangana, about 3.17 crore voters are eligible to cast their votes in the 17 Lok Sabha constituencies. A total of 525 candidates are in the fray for all the Lok Sabha constituencies in the State. According to the Election Commission of India (ECI), as many as 35,809 polling stations have been set up across the Telangana, where a total of 2.94 lakh personnel including nearly a lakh security personnel will be on poll duty.

Minimum facilities like water, sheds, toilets, ramps, volunteers, wheelchairs and electricity are in place to ensure that all voters, including the elderly and persons with disabilities, can cast their votes with ease. Voter Information Slips have been distributed to all registered voters. These slips serve as a facilitation measure and also as an invitation from the Commission to come and vote.

Voters can check their polling station details and poll date through https://electoralsearch.eci.gov.in/. The Commission has also provided 12 alternative documents to the Voter ID card (EPIC) for identity verification at polling stations. If a voter is registered in the electoral roll, voting can be done by showing any of these documents.