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Nizamabad, which is the largest paddy growing district in the State, is estimated to have a paddy yield of about 15 lakh metric tonnes this season.

The Carrom Association of Telangana will organise All India Inter-Institutional Carrom Championship from May 23 to 26, along with the Veteran Nationals for Men and Women on May 25 and 26.

Voters were seen standing in serpentine queue lines at polling booths to exercise their franchise right from the beginning of polling at 7 am.

Polling, which began on a dull note, picked up after a couple of hours and an approximate voter turnout of 69.10 percent was recorded.

Almost all the new voters came to the polling stations along with either their family members or friends.

It has been seen in the recent past how welfare schemes or freebies targeted at women have influenced election results, and hence the saffron party has asked its cadres to extensively focus on women voters

Speaking to Telangana Today, founder and president of Pravasi Mitra Labour Union, Swadeshi said no government was bothered about the problems of Gulf labourers.

“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.

The deadline expired on Wednesday, May 8, but the EC extended the deadline for two more days.

Addressing a roadshow in Nizamabad on Monday, he pointed out that the people had elected a BJP MP there in 2019.

The police have also seized Narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances(NDPS) worth Rs. 1,74,650 and freebies worth Rs.30,84,540 suspected to be distributed among the voters in the district.

The Collector informed that special vigilance teams had been set up to keep track of the distribution of cash, liquor and other goods.

Moreover, they opposed the candidature of Gaddam Vamshi Krishna, who hails from Mala community and warned to defeat the congress candidate if the ticket was allocated to Vamshi Krishna.

As for the paddy exposed to rains, only the Civil Supplies department is able to come to the rescue of the farmers. It has been purchasing paddy soaked in rain to meet the requirement of parboiled rice mills.

According to District Election Officer and Collector Rajiv Gandhi Hanumanthu, so far 33 candidates had filed a total of 62 nominations for the Nizamabad Parliamentary seat.

According to District Election Officer and Collector Rajiv Gandhi Hanumanthu, so far 26 candidates have filed a total of 44 sets of nominations for the Nizamabad Parliament seat.

According to BJP State general secretary G Premender Reddy, Hyderabad candidate K Madhavi Latha and Adilabad candidate G Nagesh would file their nomination on Wednesday.

As the son of a farmer, he said the BRS candidate grew up to be the darling of people of Nizamabad by standing with them through thick and thin.

The police seized 400 articles of jewellery including precious stones worth Rs.28 lakh in Nizamabad Urban constituency.

Though the thundershowers could bring much needed respite to the general public from the heat wave conditions that prevailed all over the State, farmers have had to pay a big price.