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Rahul Raj said counting of postal ballots will be completed in two rounds while each of these assembly segments will be completed 19 to 23 rounds.

Clarifying that mobile phones will not be allowed inside centres, Rose said that the counting process will commence at 8 am with postal ballots amid tight security arrangements.

“Flying squad, video surveillance, statistical surveillance teams, video teams and sectoral officers should be alert and inform official concern about violation of model code of conduct,”he said.

Explaining the details to Senior Deputy CEO of the Election Commission of India Nitesh Vyas in a video conference, he said polling booths were equipped with all necessary amenities.

Rose said that postal ballot printing should be done carefully and asked all the employees who got Form-12 approval to avail it.

Out the of 5, 41, 201 voters that were removed in the Hyderabad district’s 15 assembly constituencies, the number of dead voters were 47,141, shifted voters were 4,39,801 and duplicate voters were 54,259, the Election Officer on Wednesday said.

Duplicated and dead person votes in the Hyderabad parliamentary constituency have already been identified and removed from the voters list.

Members of town-level and slum-level federations, senior citizens, disabled associations, transgender, and women groups were present in this meeting.

Valuable items worth Rs. 3.06 lakh were also captured, informed the District Election Officer and GHMC Commissioner Ronald Rose in a press statement.

Considering the vulnerable polling stations determined in the last assembly elections, officials will once again assess the locations and come up with a revised list.