Telangana Assembly Elections on November 30

Assembly elections will take place in Telangana on November 30. The Notification will be issued on November 3 while last date for making nominations is on November 13. The counting will be on December 3 and th eresults will be declared on the same day of counting.

New Delhi: The Election Commission of India on Monday announced the election schedule for assembly elections in the five States of Telangana, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Mizoram. The first round of elections would be on November 7 in Mizoram and Chhattisgarh. The second phase of polling in Chhattisgarh would be on November 17, while Madhya Pradesh too would have the elections on November 17. Rajasthan would have the polls on November 23, while the elections would be held in Telangana on November 30. Counting for all States would take place simultaneously on December 3.

Announcing the schedule at a press conference in New Delhi, Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Rajiv Kumar said apart from Chhattisgarh, the other four States would have the polls in a single phase. Stating that these would be the last Assembly elections ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, the CEC said the Model Code of Conduct had come into force from Monday with the announcement of the schedule.

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For the elections in these five States, 1.77 lakh polling stations would be set up in 679 Assembly constituencies, including 119 in Telangana. The average elector per polling station was well below the ECI norms of 1500 per station in the five States. As for voters, there are 8.2 crore male voters, 7.8 crore female voters. There will be 60.2 lakh first time voters. Of the total, 17.34 lakh are differently abled persons, 24.7 lakh are aged above 80 years and 32,310 are centurions.

Stating that 940 inter-State border check posts were set up in five States to check cross border movement of illicit cash, liquor and drugs, the CEC said the total component of seizures in the last elections had increased substantially by 6000 percent in a few States.

“In Gujarat, enforcement agencies caught a drugs factory and similarly in Uttar Pradesh as well,” Rajiv Kumar said, adding that the seizures in Karnataka during the 2017 elections were worth Rs.83 crore and had increased to Rs.384 crore in the 2023 elections. Similarly, in Gujarat, it had increased from Rs.27 crore to Rs.800 crore.

Regarding the Jammu and Kashmir elections, the CEC said after considering the security aspects and elections in other States, a date would be fixed at the right time and the same would be announced. Over freebies, the CEC said the ECI’s proforma clearly explains the details and it was mandatory for political parties to disclose all details in their manifesto. At the same time, the voter has the right to know from the political parties on the extra tax burden likely to be imposed due to implementation of promises, when and how they would be delivered, besides would there be any cut-down in the existing programmes etc, he added.