GHMC Election 2020: K Chandrashekar Rao appealed to the people to “save the city from divisive forces.”
Hyderabad:
Telangana’s ruling TRS party took an early lead when votes were tallied today in Hyderabad’s high-stakes municipal elections, which saw an exceptionally high-voltage and divisive contest. Asaduddin Owaisi’s AIMIM is emerging as second, just ahead of BJP, who mounted an aggressive campaign.
According to the clues, Prime Minister K Chandrashekar Rao’s TRS or Telangana Rashtra Samiti is ahead by 57 seats, the BJP by 28 and Asaduddin Owaisi’s AIMIM by 30 seats.
The BJP got off to a good start with postal ballots, prompting messages of complacency from several BJP leaders.
The first trends to emerge from Hyderabad indicate a shift in popular mood and the shape of things to come.
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Despite vigorous campaigning by nearly all parties, Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) polls reported an unimpressive turnout of 46.55 percent on Tuesday with 34.50 lakh of voters out of 74.67. voter lakh.
The results are likely to be known only in the afternoon or evening, as the elections used ballot papers.
The elections witnessed a polarizing campaign by most parties that seemed to focus more on Pakistan, Mohammad Ali Jinnah, and whether Hyderabad wants to change its name to Bhagyanagar than on sanitation, roads and water supply.
Optimistic with its victory in the recent by-elections to the Dubbak assembly constituency, the BJP included national leaders such as Amit Shah, JP Nadda, Yogi Adityanath, Prakash Javadekar and Smriti Irani in hopes of convincing Hyderabad that it was needed. a change, if not now. then certainly in the 2023 state polls.
Tejasvi Surya of the BJP, the deputy from South Bangalore, was widely criticized for his divisive comments while taking on TRS and AIMIM.
BJP Telangana Chairman and MP Bandi Sanjay Kumar controversially said that his party would carry out a “surgical strike” in the old city, if necessary, to fire the Rohingya and Pakistanis after he won the post of mayor at the polls.
TRS’s campaign was led by its acting president and the state’s Minister of Municipal Administration, KT Rama Rao, while the chief minister, K Chandrashekar Rao, tried to strike a chord with the people, asking them to “save the city of divisive forces “, insinuating to the BJP that it has bet a lot on the municipal elections.
The GHMC was formed in April 2007 by merging 12 municipalities and eight gram panchayats with the Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (MCH). Four districts are within the GHMC boundaries, including Hyderabad, Ranga Reddy, Medchal-Malkajgiri, and Sangareddy.
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