Hyderabad civic polls: Polling is underway for the election of mayor of Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC). The voting for the 150-ward corporation started at 7 am and will continue till 6 pm. Over 74 lakhs voters are eligible to physical exercise their franchise employing ballot papers to elect their representatives. The total quantity of candidates in the fray are 1,122.
Among the important parties vying for the best post in the city are ruling TRS, Asaduddin Owaisi’s AIMIM, BJP and the Congress. KCR’s TRS is in partnership with AIMIM whilst the BJP is contesting on its personal. While the Congress also is in the fray, the primary contest is anticipated to be in between TRS-AIMIM and BJP. The BJP had turned the Hyderabad municipal election into some national level polls by paratrooping its best leadership from the Centre for campaign in the city.
Former BJP president and Home Minister Amit Shah, existing BJP President JP Nadda, UP chief minister Yogi Adityanath, former Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, Union Ministers Smriti Irani and Prakash Javadekar, and BJP Yuva Morcha chief and fiery MP Tejashvi Surya had been amongst the party’s star campaigners for election to the GHMC.
Looking at the firepower deployed by the BJP, Owaisi throughout the campaign mentioned that it did not appear like a municipal election in Hyderabad. “It’s as if we are electing a Prime Minister in place of Narendra Modi. I was at a rally in Karwan and said that everyone has been called here, a child said they should have called Trump too. He was right, only Trump is left,” Owaisi mentioned.
On Sunday, Home Minister Amit Shah visited Hyderabad and mentioned that the city will have the subsequent mayor from the BJP. Shah, who was on a day-lengthy check out to Hyderabad, held a road show there. After the road show, Shah mentioned that he was confident that this time his celebration was not fighting to boost its seats or strengthen its presence, but the mayor of Hyderabad will be from the BJP.
For smooth conduct of elections, the Telangana State Election Commission has created arrangements for the balloting approach by deploying 48,000 polling personnel and 52,500 robust police force.