Bypolls to 12 T-segments to be notified today

The Election Commission will notify on Thursday the July 27 byelections to 12 Assembly constutuencies in Telangana region.

The High Court’s verdict on Wednesday to hold bypolls to Vemulawada and Sircilla paved the way for simultaneous election of all the 12 constituencies which fell vacant in T-region. 

The byelections to the two seats had been withheld as the petitioners sought to be declared elected from the two constituencies.

Now, elections will be held in Sirpur, Chennur (SC), Mancherial, Yellareddy, Nizamabad (Urban), Koratla, Dharmapuri (SC), Huzurabad, Siddipet,  Warangal West, Vemulawada and Sircilla  assembly constituencies.

The last date for filing nominations is July 9. The papers will be scrutinised on July 10. The deadline for withdrawals is July 12. The poll will be held between 7 a.m. and 5 p.m. on July 27.  The counting of votes will be taken up at 8 a.m. on July 30.

The election was necessitated by the resignation of 10 TRS MLAs and one each from TDP and BJP in protest against the “unfair terms of reference” announced for the Srikrishna Committee during the pro-Telangana protests in February.