MLC elections: Candidates intensify efforts to woo electors in Telangana’s Adilabad

As many as 56 candidates are in fray for the MLC graduates segment, while 15 candidates are contesting in the MLC teachers' constituency

Adilabad: Candidates of erstwhile Medak-Karimnagar-Nizamabad and Adilabad MLC segments have intensified efforts to woo electors with the campaigning for the polls reaching the last leg.

As many as 56 candidates are in fray for the MLC graduates segment, while 15 candidates are contesting in the MLC teachers’ constituency. Adilabad district has 67,737 graduates and 5,512 teachers who enrolled as electors, officials said. The elections are going to be held on February 27.

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A total of 110 centres were set up for the elections for the graduates segment, while 70 centres were identified for the teachers’ constituency in Adilabad, Mancherial, Nirmal and Kumram Bheem Asifabad districts. Elaborate arrangements were already in place for smooth conduct of the polls.

The candidates of various political parties including Congress and BJP making last-ditch efforts to register victory in the polls. They are reaching out to teachers’ unions in order to get the votes. They are reportedly throwing lavish dinners and liquor parties in luxury hotels to appease the voters.

The candidates are also hosting Athmeeya sammelanams with their communities as part of their strategy to draw attention of the electors. They are making personal phone calls to electors and requesting them to seek their electoral support for their candidatures. They are also carrying out publicity on social media platforms.

Meanwhile, both the Congress and BJP ramped up their canvassing by organising poll rallies in support of their candidates. Elected representatives and Ministers from the Congress are attending the rallies. Congress has taken the elections as prestigious since the incumbents belong to the party.

Political analysts opined that the elections were a litmus test to the administration of the Congress. They reckoned that the prospects of the Congress are bleak when compared to that of their counterparts from the BJP, considering the poor performance of the party in governance.

They said the Congress was slowly losing the trust of the public by failing to keep its promises made at the time of polls to the Assembly in 2023.