Telangana polls: AIMIM leader Akbaruddin Owaisi casts his vote in Hyderabad

Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], November 30 (ANI): As the polling process is underway in Telangana, All India Majlis-E-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) leader Akbaruddin Owaisi on Thursday casted his vote in Banjara Hills, Hyderabad.

The younger brother of AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi, Akbaruddin Owaisi, is contesting from the Chandrayangutta constituency in the Telangana assembly elections.

During the 2018 assembly elections, Akbaruddin Owaisi secured victory in the Chandrayangutta seat, defeating BJP candidate Shahejadi Sayyad.

Telangana recorded a voter turnout of 51.89 per cent till 3 pm in the assembly polls that is currently underway for 119 seats, according to the Election Commission of India.

According to the Election Commission, Medak recorded a voter turnout of 69.33 per cent, Mahabubabad at 65.05 per cent, Adilabad at 62.34 per cent, Hanumankonda at 49 per cent and Hyderabad at 31.17 per cent till 3 pm.

Jangaon recorded 62.24 per cent of voter turnout, while Kamareddy recorded 59.06 per cent.

The voter turnout in Khammam was recorded 63.62 per cent, Nalgonda recorded 59.98 per cent, Nizamabad at 56.70 per cent, Sangareddy recorded 56.23 per cent and Rangareddy recorded 42.43 per cent.

Long queues were seen outside the polling stations in towns and rural parts of Telangana since early this morning as the polling for the State Assembly at 7 am.

Till 1 pm, a total of 36.68 per cent of voter turnout was recorded in the state.

This time, there are as many as 2,290 contestants in the fray, which includes Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao, his Minister-son K.T. Rama Rao, State Congress President A Revanth Reddy and BJP Lok Sabha members Bandi Sanjay Kumar and D Arvind.

Several big leaders including Chief Minister KCR, state minister KT Rama Rao, YSR Telangana Party president YS Sharmila, BJP’s Arvind Dharmapuri and Union Minister G Kishan Reddy exercised their franchise and urged voters to cast their votes.

In the first assembly polls in 2014 for the newly created state of Telangana, the Congress got 25.20 per cent votes and BRS (then TRS) got 34 per cent in the Telangana area.

In 2018, BRS (then Telangana Rashtra Samithi) won 88 of the 119 seats and had 47.4 per cent of the vote share. The Congress came a distant second with just 19 seats.

The counting of votes, along with that in four other states will be taken up on December 3.