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Over 23 lakh voters will decide the fate of 219 candidates, including 90 independents, who are running for 24 Assembly segments

List includes eight from Kashmir and 36 from Jammu division; names are for all three phases — 15 for first phase, 10 for second phase and 19 for last phase

The poll process is likely to be completed by the end of October and an elected government will take office before the year's end

Chief Minister Revanth Reddy asked the officials to commence the election process as soon as the voter list was received.

AAP's Mohinder Bhagat wins Jalandhar West, Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu's wife and Congress candidate Kamlesh Thakur bags Dehra seat

In Wayanad, Rahul Gandhi decided to vacate it and field his sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra as Congress candidate

While a BRS supporter has flagged a few concerns regarding the difference in votes polled and counted in all 17 constituencies in Telangana, Congress MP from Assam Gaurav Gogoi also raised doubts over faulty EVMs

Lamenting that there were no promotions and transfers of teachers since the last nine and six years respectively, the leaders said this was affecting teachers and students.

The absolute number of voter turnout for the first five phases is 507,297,288.

The Cabinet meeting, which was scheduled to be conducted on Saturday, was postponed as the ECI had not accorded permission.

“The Election Commission should analyse in detail about the reasons for less voting and find out whether it is because of inclusion of dead voters, duplicate voters or voters registering their names at two States,” TPCC senior vice president G Niranjan appealed.

PRTU TS president Pingili Sripal Reddy, secretary B Kamalakar Rao and MLC K Raghotham Reddy wanted the government to promote principals and school assistants without the TET requirement.

Following a nod from the Election Commission of India (ECI), the government on Wednesday constituted universities-wise search committees.

The Telangana University Vice-Chancellor has already been removed from the position by the State government and Principal Secretary to Government (Education department) Burra Venkatesham has been holding the post as VC in charge.

Objecting to her remarks, the Chief Minister wanted Prime Minister Narendra Modi and union Home Minister Amit Shah to spell out their stand on the BJP leader’s comments.

Union Territory Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu recorded 65.23 per cent voter turnout, as per the latest data. In this phase, more than 1300 candidates, including around 120 women, are in the fray.

During the Jana Jatara Sabha in Kothagudem on Saturday, the Chief Minister had openly declared that Rythu Bharosa disbursement would be completed by May 8. To this effect, he even challenged BRS president K Chandrashekhar Rao.

Interestingly, while the Congress complaint was about the April 6 press conference by Chandrashekhar Rao, the ECI order makes a mention of his speeches from way back in 2019 as well.

This was despite the BRS lodging the complaint barely a week after the Congress complaint against Chandrashekhar Rao.

In its complaint the BJP alleged that ever since the Delhi police iled a case against Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy in the alleged doctored video of union Home Minister Amit Shah, the banners and posters of the party were being destroyed.