The counting of votes in the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) elections held on December 1 began on Friday amid tight security measures. The poll, which saw a fierce campaign by rulers TRS, BJP and Asaduddin Owai’s All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM), had a voter turnout of 46.55%.
The post of Mayor of Hyderabad is reserved for women for the next two terms.
While political parties are quite clear about their position and the two main parties, Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), do not expect a serious reversal of their estimates made after the poll, the latter came close. campaigning with an eye on the upcoming 2023 state elections, flying in top leaders like Amit Shah, JP Nadda, Yogi Adityanath, Prakash Javadekar and Smriti Irani.
Here are the latest updates:
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The HC order on the ballot papers is unlikely to cause delays in the count
The Superior Court order setting aside the SEC circular is unlikely to cause any delays in the recount, on the premise that such ballots would be too few, officials say.
The State Elections Commission had previously issued a circular that validated ballots with a check mark or any other seal other than the swastika. The Telangana Superior Court ruled that such ballots should be counted separately and added only when the assured majority is less than those votes.
10 am
Leaders monitor the count from home
TRS Acting Chairman KT Rama Rao is monitoring the counting process from Pragati Bhavan. All the leaders of Congress, including the head of Congress N. Uttam Kumar Reddy, are also at home.
This comes after the State Health Department urged public representatives, political leaders and party cadres, who participated in campaigns and polls, to isolate themselves for a week to contain the possible spread of the coronavirus.
Counting in progress downtown Wesley College, Secunderabad on Friday, December 4, 2020. | Photo credit: G. Ramakrishna
As politicians and party cadres interacted closely with the people, there is a possibility that the infectious disease will spread further if asymptomatic virus carriers, who did not take precautions, were part of the demonstrations or other events, the officials noted. Health officials.
9.40 am
Probable results at night
The results of the tight elections are likely to be known at night, as ballots were used to vote.
The SEC had decided to conduct the election by ballot after consulting with the major parties, the Health department in light of the COVID-19 pandemic and taking into account other relevant issues, it said previously.
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Energetic and kind: Hyderabad’s first female mayor
As the city prepares to elect a mayor for the next 10 years, here’s a look at the first to break the glass ceiling.
Rani Kumudini Devi was the first female mayor of Hyderabad, elected unanimously in 1962. She represented the constituency of the Wanaparthi Assembly from 1962 to 1972.
Ms. Devi was born in Vaddepally in the Warangal district on January 23, 1911. Her father, Pingle Venkatrama Reddy, was the Deputy Prime Minister of the Nizam government. She was married to J. Rajaramdev Rao from Wanaparthi and was noted for being the first female driver of vehicles, according to records available from the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation.
She had created the Sivananda Rehabilitation Center for leprosy patients. He died at the age of 98 on August 6, 2009.
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Start counting
The vote count for the recently conducted Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation began this morning.
The highly controversial election count is taking place at 150 centers established in different locations across the GHMC boundaries. Vote-by-mail ballots will be counted first and then regular ballots, which are expected to be grouped into 25 ballots each.
Each counting room will have 14 tables, each table with two counting assistants supervised by a counting supervisor. A total of 8,152 counting personnel have been deployed for this purpose, the statement said. The entire process at each center will be supervised by a return officer and an assistant return officer.
The counting process will be recorded by closed circuit television cameras and will be supervised by 31 observers. In each round, a total of 14,000 votes will be counted.
The survey percentage has some surprises
The final percentage of polls from the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation election on December 1 has quite a few surprises among the districts that were affected by the October floods in the city.
While Chaitanyapuri, Saroornagar, RK Puram, and Kothapet in the eastern part of Hyderabad showed voter apathy compared to the 2016 elections, the southern parts of the city showed higher voter turnout compared to 2016. Both areas were were affected by floods and a large number of residents received Rs. 10,000 solatium announced by the Telangana government.
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