Voting is underway for the bypoll to Nagarjuna Sagar meeting constituency in Telangana on Saturday with voters queuing as much as train their franchise. Polling started at 7 am and can conclude at 7 pm, ballot officers mentioned.
COVID-19 security protocols are being adopted at polling cubicles. As many as 4,000 police personnel together with central forces have been deployed for the bypoll.
Election officers have arrange as many as 346 polling stations. The bypoll for the constituency was necessitated as a result of loss of life of sitting TRS legislator Nomula Narsimhaiah who handed away in December final.
The ruling TRS nominated Nomula Bhagat son of Narsimhaiah. The saffron occasion has fielded P Ravi Kumar whereas the Congress put up senior chief Okay Jana Reddy, who had served as Leader of Opposition in the earlier Legislative Assembly.
Reddy misplaced from the identical constituency in the 2018 Assembly polls. The Nagarjuna Sagar bypoll outcome could be an acid check for the ruling TRS, resurgent BJP and Congress– with all three eager to show their may as a win or defeat could script the technique to be adopted by them for the Assembly polls in 2023.
Though candidates from different events and independents are in the fray for the Assembly phase, the competition could be primarily between the three events.
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