Telangana

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

With weather remaining a bit cool compared to the last few days, voting percent increased after every hour.

Taking strong exception to Revanth Reddy addressing a press conference in the middle of the voting, the union Minister said the Revanth had no respect for norms.

All the assembly segments in both the Lok Sabha constituencies attracted a huge number of voters beginning from morning except the Patancheru assembly segment

The tension was created between the rival groups when BRS MLA Palla Rajeshwar Reddy and Congress leader Kommuri Rakesh Reddy have reached the same polling station.

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.

He hoped for the best after the hard fought battle on the polling day. Shortly after the polling concluded, Rama Rao took to X and expressed his happiness over the courage and resilience displayed by the party cadre in the parliament elections.

KT Rama Rao said Prime Minister Narendra Modi was campaigning across the country, but was dishing out step-motherly treatment to Telangana with no Central university or hospital given in 10 years.

However, urban areas especially Hyderabad, Secunderabad and Malakajgiri parliamentary constituencies witnessed a lukewarm response from voters recording a poor poll percentage.

At Lachagudem of Yellandu mandal in Kothagudem district the villagers have boycotted polls in protest against the government’s failure to address the problems.

Thanks to a dip in maximum temperatures caused by light to moderate rains that cooled down sweltering heat wave conditions, the segment saw 69.81 percent of voting by 5 pm when compared to 75.34 percent registered in 2019.

After casting the vote, she complained about chest pain and collapsed, leaving everyone in the polling station in shock.

With voters staying away from voting, the polling staff and agents had to sit idle for almost entire day. Till last reports came in, hardly five to 10 votes were polled in the booth, according to reports.

While Tamil Nadu led the chart with 99.84 pass percentage, Puducherry followed with 99.81, Kerala with 99.79, Andhra Pradesh with 99.66 while Telangana took the fifth position with 99.55 pass percentage.

For the Class XII examinations, a total of 8,337 students, i.e., 4,433 boys and 3,904 girls, appeared of whom 8,266 students were declared as pass. The pass percentage among boys from the State was 98.85 while it was 99.49 among the girls.

Three chartered flights were scheduled on Monday from Hyderabad to Madinah and pilgrims from different parts of the State were set to travel.

TPCC senior vice president G Niranjan said BJP Malkajgiri candidate Etala Rajender cast his vote at Gudur village in the constituency.

Polling which began at 7 am ended 6 pm, barring a few places where it concluded early.

Instead of directly going into the booth and voting, Muzammil Khan stood in the queue like a common voter and cast his vote. Other voters were surprised seeing the Collector standing in queue along with them.

Owing to the stigma over being treated as second grade citizens by many, transgender persons earlier would not come forward to vote or even enroll their names in the electoral rolls.

In the remote Mankapur village in Bazarhathnoor mandal, villagers stood away from voting demanding a road to the village.

Jangaon: Tension prevailed for some time in Ganugapahad village after the police lathi charge people who came to a booth to cast their vote on Monday. The villagers staged a protest against the high-handed behaviour of the police and demanded the government to take action against the erring officials. However, the police refuted the allegations […]

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

In Telangana, Zahirabad recorded the highest turnout of 63.96 per cent, followed by 63.67 per cent in Khammam, and 62.44 per cent in Nalgonda.