Enrollment drive of voters to graduate, teachers MLC constituencies gets overwhelming response

The enrollment drive to the Adilabad-Karimnagar-Medak and Nizamabad graduates MLA constituency and the Adilabad-Karimnagar-Medak and Nizamabad teachers' MLC constituency has received an overwhelming response in the erstwhile Medak district.

Sangareddy: The enrollment drive to the Adilabad-Karimnagar-Medak and Nizamabad graduates MLA constituency and the Adilabad-Karimnagar-Medak and Nizamabad teachers’ MLC constituency has received an overwhelming response in the erstwhile Medak district.

Since the elections are slated to be held in March next year, the district administration carried out an enrollment drive across the constituency. The erstwhile Medak district had just 36,352 graduate voters when the last election was held in 2019. The number of voters enrolled in the constituency in the district has increased to 74,352 now, a more than 100 per cent increase. The number of teacher voters also increased from 6,424 in 2019 to 8,192 in 2024. The teacher’s MLC constituency got 1,769 new voters in five years.

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There will be another enrollment drive from November 23 to December 9 which is likely to add a few more voters. The first phase of enrollment online and offline commenced on September 30 and ended on November 6. The candidates who completed their graduation in 2021 were eligible for enrollment as graduate voters. Political parties were seen discussing how the increased enrollment would impact the outcome of the elections. They are busy finding the right candidate to field from each of these two constituencies.

While veteran Congress leader T Jeevan Reddy had won the 2019 graduate MLC election, PRTU leader Kura Raghotham Reddy had won the teacher’s MLC election. Apart from the main political parties, many independent candidates are also preparing to test their luck in the election.