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Kerala: UDF, Congress organise marches across Wayanad constituency

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Wayanad: Members of the United Democratic Front (UDF) on Sunday took out a torch march in Thiruvambady in Kerala’s Wayanad constituency against the Central government in the wake of the disqualification of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi from Lok Sabha who was representing the seat in Parliament.
Several protest marches are being organised by Congress and UDF across the constituency against Rahul Gandhi’s disqualification.
In Kozhikode, Muslim Youth League also conducted a light march.
The procession inaugurated by IUML state president Sayyid Sadiq Ali Shihab Thangal was carried out with the slogan ‘democracy in danger, support Rahul’.
MYL is the youth wing of the major political party in Kerala, IUML.
The Congress on Sunday began a day-long nationwide “Sankalp Satyagraha” in support of Rahul Gandhi following his disqualification from the Lok Sabha.
Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge, general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, senior leaders KC Venugopal, P Chidambaram and Salman Khurshid were among the party’s top brass taking part in the satyagraha at Rajghat.
Congress organised various protests in several states including Himachal Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh.

In Karnataka also, Youth Congress Workers hold a ‘Mashal March’ in Bengaluru against the Central government in the wake of the disqualification of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi from Lok Sabha.
However, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra from Delhi Raj Ghat trained her guns on the ruling BJP and vowed to keep fighting for the people at the party’s Sankalap Satyagraha to protest against the move to disqualify her brother and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi.
“Who thinks that they can silence us by scaring and humiliating us? Listen, we will not stop, I will see to it that the hard-earned money of the public is not being looted and given to few people,” Priyanka Gandhi said in a hard-hitting attack on the ruling party at the Centre.
“It was my family (Nehru-Gandhi) who nurtured the democracy of this country with their blood,” she said.
Rahul Gandhi, on Friday, was disqualified as a member of the Lok Sabha, a day after a Surat court sentenced him to two years imprisonment in a defamation case filed against him over his ‘Modi surname’ remark.
The decision came pertaining to his remark made in April 2019, where he had said “how come all the thieves have Modi as the common surname” at a Lok Sabha election rally at Kolar in Karnataka. The court approved Gandhi’s bail on a surety and stayed the sentence for 30 days to allow him to approach the higher courts.
“My brother went to PM Modi and hugged him in the Parliament and said he has no hatred for you. We might have different ideologies but we do not have the ideology of hatred,” the Congress General Secretary said at Raj Ghat.
“You (BJP) talk about ‘Pariwarvaad’, I want to ask who was Lord Ram. Was he ‘Pariwarvaadi’, or were the Pandavas ‘Pariwarvaadi’ just because they fought for the culture of their family? Should we be ashamed because our family members fought for the people of the country?” she said.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

March 27, 2023
Telangana: Stage set for Teachers’ Constituency MLC election

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Hyderabad: Arrangements for the smooth conductance of the Mahabubnagar-Rangareddy-Hyderabad Teachers’ constituency MLC elections have been undertaken by the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC).
GHMC’s revenue additional commissioner Priyanka Ala, who has been appointed the Returning Officer (RO) for the election, reviewed the arrangements at the distribution centre set up at the GHMC head office on Sunday.
Polling is scheduled to be held from 8 am to 4 pm with a total of 137, including 126 main and 11 additional, polling stations have been set up.
Priyanka Ala instructed the polling staff to examine the statutory and non-statutory documents as well as the ballot paper, ballot box and voter list.
Briefing the arrangements, Ala said 12 sector control officers and 29 observers were appointed for the election.
In addition to the above, police bandobast, adequate infrastructure, drinking water and ramps for those with special needs are in place at the polling stations.
A distribution centre at GHMC head office to temporarily store election material and a reception centre at Saroornagar Indoor Stadium have been set up.
A total of 29,720 people have registered themselves as electors for the MLC Teachers’ Constituency election from eight districts out of which 15,472 are male and 14,246 female, while two electors have registered themselves as the third gender.

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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

March 13, 2023
Telangana teachers’ constituency polls: Special leave for govt teachers on March 13

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Hyderabad: The Election Commission of India has announced the biennial election poll to the Telangana Legislative Council from Mahabubnagar – Ranga Reddy – Hyderabad teachers constituency to be held on March 13.
The poll will be held on Monday from 8 am to 4 pm in Hyderabad, Jogulamba-Gadwal, Mahabubnagar, Medchal-Malkajgiri, Narayanpet, Nagarkurnool, Ranga Reddy, Vikarabad and Wanaparthy.
Telangana Chief Electoral Office has ordered a special casual leave to the central and state government employees on the day of the poll, to enable them to exercise their right of franchise.
However, the employees of the private establishments were informed that there is no provision to declare a general holiday for the elections to State Legislative Councils under the Representation of People Act, 1951.
Hyderabad district election officer urged the private schools, colleges, universities, management, and authorities to grant necessary facilities to their employees who are registered voters in the constituencies to take part in the polls.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

March 9, 2023
Names of many Muslim voters in a Bengaluru constituency removed

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Bengaluru: Names of 9,159 Muslim voters in the Shivajinagar constituency in Bengaluru have been removed from the voters’ list. This removal is done based on a complaint filed by a private agency named Chilume which has links to the BJP. The complaint was filed on November 16, 2022, and the action was taken by the Election commission in January 2023.
It is reported that the private agency, Chilume prepared a list of 26,000 voters after collecting the data illegally since October 2022 for the Shivajinagar constituency. The complaint filed to the Election Commission alleged that 26,000 fake voters are identified in the Shivajinagar constituency who have either shifted from that place or are dead.
The Election Commission published the final electoral roll for the Shivajinagar constituency on January 15, 2023. This is when the BJP private agency swung into action with its voters list some eight days after the electoral roll was published. The private agency of the BJP went to the Election Commission demanding that the 26,000 names mentioned in the EC list should be removed.
The EC officials immediately cross-checked all the 26,000 names and found that 9,159 had either shifted out of their old home addresses or were dead. Accordingly, EC asked the suspected voters to appear before the authorities.
However, media reports say the suspected names that were deleted were all wrong and it verified with those who received the notices found them to be alive and living at the same old addresses.
Congress MLA Rizwan Arshad has reportedly said, “Voters are getting harassed. Many people replied to the first notice, despite the that they have been issued a second notice asking them to appear before the EC. This process is to tire people out.. I don’t know why Shivajinagar was chosen for this experiment. Maybe because this is a safe seat for the Congress, the BJP wants to see if deletion can help them win the election.”
Further, the MLA asked, “how a private group can do door-to-door electoral roll calls and create a voter list of its own is something that is a mystery? The alarming part is the quick response of the election commission to such a complaint.
The move is being seen as a violation of Election Commission rules issued on September 13, 2021, that says no deletion to the electoral rolls can be done six months prior to the end of the term of the Assembly. (Karnataka assembly term ends in the last week of May).

Rules mandate that Form 7 has to be filled if anyone wants to raise an objection and delete a name from the existing electoral roll. Did the BJP fill 26,000 Form 7s? The Electoral Registration Office confirmed that the BJP did not fill any Form 7. If they didn’t, why did the CEO’s office accept their complaint?
Shivajinagar, which is in the heart of Bengaluru, has around 1.91 lakh voters, 40% of whom are Muslims. The constituency has been represented by a Congress MLA since 2008.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

February 25, 2023
Hyderabad: 8 more Independent nominations received for Teachers’ constituency

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Hyderabad: The biennial elections to the Telangana Legislative Council from Mahabubnagar-Rangareddy-Hyderabad Teacher’s constituency election received eight nominations by independent candidates on Wednesday.
Biennial Elections are required to be held every 2 years in accordance with the Election Procedure Rules.
While Lingidi Venkateshwarulu, Galreddy Harshvardhan Reddy, and Katepally Janardhan Reddy and filed two sets of nominations each.
The commission had declared that the biennial elections for two seats of the Telangana Legislative Council which include one Teachers’ constituency and one local authorities’ constituency, will be held on March 13.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

February 22, 2023
Asaduddin Owaisi announces MLC candidate for Hyderabad local bodies constituency

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Hyderabad: All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) president and Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi today announced the MLC candidate for the local bodies constituency.
The announcement came after Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) decided to back the AIMIM in the upcoming MLC polls to the constituency.
In the poll, the Owaisi-led party is going to field Mirza Rahmat Baig as the MLC candidate for the constituency.
KCR decides to back AIMIM
Earlier, BRS president K Chandrashekar Rao took the decision to back the AIMIM in the upcoming MLC polls.
Earlier too, BRS supported AIMIM in the election to the seat.
The polls for the seat along with the Mahabubnagar-Rangareddy-Hyderabad Teachers constituency will be held on March 13.
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February 21, 2023
Telangana MLC polls: 5 Independent nominations received for Teachers’ constituency

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Hyderabad: The biennial elections to the Telangana Legislative Council from Mahabubnagar-Rangareddy-Hyderabad Teacher’s constituency election received five nominations by independent candidates on Monday.
Biennial Elections are required to be held every 2 years in accordance with the Election Procedure Rules.
While Madishetty Tirupati and Chalika Chandrasekhar filed two sets of nominations each, Chalika Parvathi, P Manik Reddy and Marampalli Lakshminarayana filed a set of nominations each.
In addition to them, two more candidates, B Bhujanga Rao and D Malla Reddy filed their nominations today following which the papers were handed over to the returning officer, Priyanka Ala.
So far, 11 independent candidates have filed 18 nominations.
The returning officer informed that no nominations were received for Hyderabad Local Authorities Constituency.
The commission had declared that the biennial elections for two seats of the Telangana Legislative Council which include one Teachers’ constituency and one local authorities’ constituency, will be held on March 13.

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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

February 21, 2023
MLC polls: BRS to back AIMIM in Hyderabad local bodies constituency

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Hyderabad: The Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) on Tuesday decided to back the All India Majlis Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) in the upcoming MLC polls to Hyderabad local bodies constituency.
BRS president K Chandrashekar Rao took the decision after considering the request from the AIMIM party to support them in the ensuing elections.
Earlier too, BRS supported AIMIM in the election to the seat.
Though AIMIM has not declared the name of the candidate for the seat, it is likely that the party retain Syed Aminul Hasan Jafri for the fourth term.
His first term was in the erstwhile Andhra Pradesh Legislative Council and two terms in Telangana Legislative Council.
The polls for the seat along with the Mahabubnagar-Rangareddy-Hyderabad Teachers constituency will be held on March 13.
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February 21, 2023
AIMIM leaders visiting every constituency in Rajasthan: Owaisi

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Jaipur: AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi, who has been trying to strengthen his party’s base in poll-bound Rajasthan, on Sunday said party leaders are visiting every assembly constituency in the state to strengthen the organisation.
Owaisi, who is on a two-day visit to Rajasthan, also said that it is too early to announce the number of seats his party will contest in the assembly polls.
Assembly elections in Rajasthan are due later this year.
“We have come to Rajasthan to strengthen our party ahead of the upcoming state assembly elections. My visit was pre-scheduled. Core committee members are visiting every assembly constituency to strengthen the organisation,” the Hyderabad MP told reporters in Tonk.
“Core committee will announce on how many seats the party will contest in the elections. It is too early to comment,” he said.
When asked whether his party has any big face to contest against Congress’ Sachin Pilot, the AIMIM chief said, “There are several faces. When he can land through parachute, then we can also.”
Speaking about the deaths of Junaid and Nasir who were allegedly abducted by cow vigilantes from Bharatpur and their charred bodies were found in Haryana, Owaisi said, “Both Haryana and Rajasthan governments are not serious. Haryana government is saving the accused. If Rajasthan government is serious, then it should send police and arrest the accused.”

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February 19, 2023