Telangana: The polling for the much-awaited Huzurabad (Telangana) Assembly by-election will be held on October 30. The announcement for the bypoll, along with 29 other Assembly Constituencies and three Lok Sabha Constituencies in the country, will be issued on October 1. According to the report, the last date for filing nominations is October 8 and the election process will be completed on November 5, as per the schedule released by the Election Commission of India.
The bypoll has become necessary after the former senior leader of the ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) Eatala Rajender quit the party in June 2021 over the alleged harassment by his former mentor and Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao. He was ousted from the Cabinet after the State Government ordered a probe into the land grab allegations against Rajender.
Rajender said that there was no internal democracy in the party and even the top leaders in the party and Opposition MLAs were not given appointments to meet the Chief Minister. He later joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and set off for a padayatra in the Constituency, appealing to the voters to re-elect him to the Assembly and teach ‘despotic KCR’ a lesson.
The ruling party has taken the imminent bypoll seriously and deployed a few Ministers, including Finance Minister and Chief Minister’s nephew T Harish Rao, who launched an election campaign over two months ago.
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