Independent candidate dies of heart attack before Jubilee Hills assembly by- poll counting
Independent candidate Mohammed Anwar, 40, collapsed and died of a suspected heart attack minutes before counting began for the Jubilee Hills by-election. He had secured three votes in the first round and was contesting on the Nationalist Congress Party symbol, a clock.
Hyderabad: Minutes before counting began for the Jubilee Hills by-poll, an Independent candidate Mohammed Anwar, 40, died of a suspected heart attack.
He secured three votes in the first round of counting.
Anwar, a resident of Erragadda was reportedly been anxiously waiting for the counting since morning when he collapsed with severe chest pain. Family members immediately took him to a hospital, where doctors declared him dead on arrival.
Anwar had contested the bypoll from the Nationalist Congress Party and was allotted a clock as the symbol.
