Hyderabad. Voting for 119 seats of Telangana Assembly will be held on Thursday i.e. tomorrow. Since the formation of Telangana, it has been here for two consecutive times. Chandrashekhar Rao’s BRS (earlier TRS) government. In the last Telangana Assembly elections in 2018, TRS had got 88 seats. The party had secured 47.4 percent votes. Congress had got 19 seats with 28.7 percent votes. AIMIM got 7 seats with 2.7 percent votes, BJP got 1 seat with 7.1 percent votes, TDP got 2 seats with 3.5 percent votes and others got 2 seats.
Earlier in the 2014 Telangana Assembly elections, K. Chandrashekhar Rao’s TRS had won 63 seats. Then he got 34.3 percent votes. In 2014, 25.2 percent voters of Telangana voted for Congress and won 21 seats. TDP won 15 seats with 14.7 percent votes, AIMIM won 7 seats with 3.8 percent votes, and BJP won 5 seats with 7.1 percent votes. That means BJP had lost 4 seats in 2018 after getting the same number of votes as in 2014. This time Chandrashekhar Rao is facing challenge from BJP and Congress. PM Narendra Modi from BJP and Rahul Gandhi from Congress have held massive rallies in Telangana. Now everyone’s eyes are on whether Chandrashekhar Rao becomes the CM here for the third time, or he has to lose power. The results of Telangana assembly elections will also be declared on December 3 along with other 4 states.
Now let us tell you which veteran is contesting on which seats in Telangana. CM K from Kamareddy seat. Chandrashekhar Rao is in the field. Congress state president A. Revanth Reddy has jumped into the election fray. Revanth Reddy was earlier with BJP. CM Chandrashekhar Rao has also filed nomination from Gajwel seat. Here BJP’s Etela Rajendra is challenging him. Sircilla is pitted against Congress’s KK Mahendra Reddy against CM’s son and state minister KT Rama Rao. BJP’s Soyam Bapurao in both, BJP’s Arvind Dharmapuri from Kortala, Congress’s A from Kodangal. Revanth Reddy is contesting from Hazurabad against BJP’s Etela Rajendra. BJP’s firebrand leader Bundi Sanjay Kumar is trying his luck from Karimnagar seat. Former cricketer Mohammad Azharuddin from Jubilee Hills has decided to try his luck on Congress ticket. Voters of Telangana will also decide the fate of BJP’s firebrand T. Raja Singh from Goshamahal, AIMIM’s Akbaruddin Owaisi from Chandrayangutta, Congress’s Uttam Kumar Reddy from Huzurnagar and Mallu Bhatti Vikramark from Madhira.