2020 GHMC Elections: Voting began at 7am.
Hyderabad:
More than 74 lakh eligible voters are eligible to vote today in the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation or GHMC election. Voting began at 7 am. The election comes after more than a week of intense and scathing campaigning. The election of the civic body is a high-stakes battle for the ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi, the BJP, who is trying to make headway, and Asaduddin Owaisi’s AIMIM. These have been the most fiercely and bitterly fought municipal elections in Hyderabad with a high-octane BJP campaign that included national leaders, such as Amit Shah, JP Nadda, and Yogi Adityanath, in hopes of convincing Hyderabad that change was needed. .
Here are the live updates on the Hyderabad municipal corporation election:
Telangana: Actor Chiranjeevi cast his vote in the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) elections in Hyderabad today.
Images of the early hours of the day pic.twitter.com/vSF3kJR8tr
– ANI (@ANI) December 1, 2020
Union State Minister G Kishan Reddy cast his vote in the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) election on Tuesday.
In the morning, he was seen waiting in line at the voting booth at the Deeksha Model School in Kachiguda for his turn to exercise his democratic right to vote.
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‘Exercise your right’ to the ‘right effect’To download your voter sheet:
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Get out there to vote. pic.twitter.com/3Y9gxrQ2MT– G Kishan Reddy (@kishanreddybjp) December 1, 2020
Telangana – TRS leader K Kavitha casts her vote in the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) elections in Hyderabad.
“We want the people of Hyderabad to come and vote. It is a privilege to have the right to vote. If you don’t vote, you won’t have the right to question,” he says. pic.twitter.com/m8RxaoTT5x
– ANI (@ANI) December 1, 2020
Telangana: Telangana Interior Minister Mohammed Mahmood Ali casts his vote in the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) elections in Hyderabad pic.twitter.com/fVxDhfrnuM
– ANI (@ANI) December 1, 2020
The Telangana State Elections Commission (SEC) has made elaborate arrangements for the voting process by deploying 48,000 (including reserve) voting staff and 52,500 police officers.
GHMC Elections 2020 Live Updates: GHMC, A Brief History
The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation or 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.
GHMC Elections 2020 LIVE: Tight Security In Place
Hyderabad Police Chief Anjani Kumar said security has been tightened in all areas. “Central and state forces are available in the city of Hyderabad. We have established security in the normal, sensitive, hypersensitive and critical polling stations under the leadership of inspector level officers. The Strike Force, the Emergency Response Team will be available. Security has been established at 293 hypersensitive pickets. We have established six armed police teams in critical hypersensitive police centers, “he said.
GHMC Surveys LIVE: Why These Surveys Matter To BJP
The BJP sees the election of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation as an opportunity to carve out a space in Telangana. In 2016, the party claimed only four of 150 seats, while Prime Minister K Chandrashekar Rao’s TRS swept 99. The BJP recently won the by-elections for the Dubbak assembly constituency.
GHMC LIVE Elections: Ballot Voting, Not EVM
The Electoral Commission of the State of Telangana is conducting the elections with ballots instead of EVM due to the coronavirus crisis. Voter IDs or one of 18 alternative photo IDs can be displayed. Elderly voters and women with children do not need to wait in line. There is no provision for online voting, although postal ballots have been allowed.
Telangana Minister KT Rama Rao, who voted this morning, urged the people to exercise their right to vote.
GHMC Elections 2020 LIVE: 1,122 candidates, 150 divisions
1,122 candidates compete in the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation elections. The election is held in 150 divisions spread over four districts.
GHMC Elections LIVE: Voting Arrangements
Detailed arrangements have been made for today’s vote by the Telangana State Electoral Commission with 48,000 electoral staff members and 52,500 police deployed.
Top BJP leaders who had campaigned for Hyderabad civic body polls:
Union Minister of the Interior, Amit Shah,
Head of BJP JP Nadda
Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, Yogi Adityanath
Prakash Javadekar
Smriti Irani
G Kishan Reddy
Tejaswi Surya
AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi said after the vote: “I appeal to the people of Hyderabad to vote today to strengthen democracy.”
Hyderabad Municipal Corporation Polls: Votes from Union Minister G Kishan Reddy
“Following all Covid Security Protocols, casting my vote together with my family at the Kachiguda Electoral College this morning. Voting is our constitutional right and we must all exercise it in the interest of a capable administration,” Reddy tweeted after casting his vote. .
The Union Minister of State for Internal Affairs, G Kishan Reddy, waits in a queue at the Deeksha Model School in Kachiguda to cast his vote.
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