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N.Sagar bypoll: Who will benefit from higher polling?

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N.Sagar bypoll: Who will benefit from higher polling?

A higher polling percentage of over 88% per cent was recorded in Nagarjunasagar Assembly bypoll on Saturday (today).

This is more than 2018 Assembly polling percentage when 86.82% was recorded.

The higher polling percentage in bypoll naturally triggered a debate in political and media circles over who will benefit from this.

While one argument is that the higher polling percentage will benefit ruling TRS as it happened in recent Graduate MLC polls in which TRS won both the seats against all the expectations.

The other argument is that Congress will benefit out of higher polling percentage as voters turned out in large number to express their anger at the TRS government for its failure to fulfill several promises made during 2018 Assembly polls like giving new ration cards, new Aasara pensions, 2BHK houses, job notifications etc.

However, there is talk about a tough fight between TRS and Congress only and BJP is nowhere in the scene.

There is a talk that it is difficult for BJP even to retain its deposit in this bypoll though BJP sprang a surprise by defeating TRS in recent Dubbak bypoll.

Whether these arguments and speculations would turn out to be true or not will be known only on May 2 when the counting of votes takes place.

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Polling underway for Telangana’s Nagarjunasagar Assembly bypoll

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Polling underway for Telangana’s Nagarjunasagar Assembly bypoll

Voting for Nagarjunasagar Assembly bypoll in Telangana began on Saturday morning amid tight security.

Polling started at 7 am and will continue till 7 pm, with the last hour earmarked for covid patients.

In all, there are 2,20,300 voters in the constituency, the bypoll for which was necessitated by the death of MLA Nomula Narasmhaiah of the ruling TRS.

Officials said polling is being held at 346 centres in the constituency in Nalgonda district.

All Covid guidelines are in place for the polling, with 5,535 personnel deployed for overseeing the polling day activities.

The poll authorities have arranged 1,446 electronic voting machines.

The byelection will decide the political fortunes of 41 candidates.

The poll has the ruling TRS pitted against a resurgent BJP, and the Congress which is trying to claw it’s way back to political relevance in the state.

The TRS has fielded Nomula Bhagat, son of the deceased MLA, while the Congress has fielded it’s strongman and former Minister K Jana Reddy. The BJP is represented by P Ravi Kumar Naik.

The bypoll has acquired significance following the BJP wresting the Dubbaka Assembly bypoll from the ruling TRS in November last year.

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Nagarjunasagar bypoll: Tractor, road roller symbols haunt TRS

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Nagarjunasagar bypoll: Tractor, road roller symbols haunt TRS

The ruling TRS in Telangana continues to face the problem of ‘identical symbols’ even in the Nagarjunasagar Assembly bypoll.

The Election Commission has allotted tractor, road roller, chapati maker symbols to Independent candidates, which look very similar to TRS symbol ‘car’.

The TRS leaders claim that it lost Dubbak Assembly bypoll to BJP in December 2020 due to these identical symbols arguing that TRS voters voted for Independents confusing those symbols with car.

BJP candidate in Dubbak Raghunandan Rao won with a slender majority of just 1,118 votes over TRS candidate Solipeta Sujatha.

Though several Independent candidates contested Dubbak bypoll, one Independent candidate Bandaru Nagaraju got 3,570 votes, who was allotted chapati maker symbol which looked similar to TRS car symbol.

TRS leaders claim that TRS voters voted for Nagaraju due to confusion and that’s why he got 3,570 votes while all other Independents got votes in single digit.

TRS leaders say this alone is proof that Nagaraju got TRS votes.

In 2018 Assembly polls too, TRS leaders claimed that TPCC chief Uttam Kumar Reddy won from Huzurnagar with the narrow majority because an Independent candidate was allotted road roller symbol which was similar to car symbol.

Now, the EC has again allotted road roller, tractor, chapati maker symbols to Independents in Nagarjunasagar, which is giving sleepless nights to TRS leaders.

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Strange coincidences in Tirupati, Nagarjunasagar bypolls!

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Strange coincidences in Tirupati, Nagarjunasagar bypolls!

Tirupathi Lok Sabha bypoll in Andhra Pradesh and Nagarjunasagar Assembly bypoll in Telangana have several coincidences.

Both these bypolls are being held on April 17.

The bypolls for both these seats were necessitated following the untimely death of sitting MP and MLA of ruling parties YSRCP and TRS in AP and Telangana.

Now yet another coincidence will be witnessed on April 17.

YSRCP chief and AP CM YS Jaganmohan Reddy will hold a huge public meeting in Renigunta in Chittoor district on April 14 to campaign for party candidate in the bypoll.

TRS chief and Telangana CM K Chandrashekar Rao has also decided to hold a huge public meeting in Halia in Nagarjunasagar Assembly constituency on the same day on April 14 to campaign for party candidate in the bypoll.

The last day for campaigning in both these states is April 15.

Both the ruling parties in both the states want to end the campaigning with the huge public meetings of their party chiefs.

Everyone is eagerly waiting for the outcome of these bypolls in both states.

Whether the bypoll result will also be a coincidence with ruling party candidates emerging victorious will be known only on May 2.

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