Arrangements In Place For Huzurabad By-Election

Election Commission authorities and the state government have made the necessary arrangements for the smooth conduct of the by-election in the Huzurabad Assembly constituency.

The Huzurabad constituency has a total of 2,36,036 voters, including 1,17,933 male and 119,102 women voters, according to information received.

The EC has shifted 306 units each of EVMs, VVPATs and control units, and 612 ballot units, to the constituency. In addition to this, the authorities have kept some polling materials in reserve for any emergency use in the polling. They include 115 control units, 279 ballot units and 209 VVPATs.

The EC has also deployed 20 companies of police personnel for the smooth conduct of the by-election.

The mock polling will start one hour before the actual polling, which will begin at 7 am and continue till 7 pm, in 306 polling stations.

The polling personnel and officials on duty will then shift the EVMs and polling materials to SRR Degree College in Karimnagar. The counting will be done at this college, and the results announced, on November 2.

The by-election was necessitated by Etela Rajender resigning as MLA followed by his ouster as minister post on land grabbing charges. It has turned quite prestigious for the TRS, the BJP and the Congress, all of which are seeing this as some kind of referendum on the government.