Prakasam records 68.53% polling

Ongole: Polling for the MPTC and ZPTC elections went on peacefully across Prakasam district on Thursday. The district recorded 68.53 per cent polling by 05:00 pm, as 683541 of the 997469 voters cast their votes, officials said.

Officials said 2 of the 27 ZPTC seats and 151 of the 371 MPTC seats were won unopposed. So polling was held for 25 ZPTC seats with 96 candidates and for 220 MPTC seats with 599 candidates. Chimakurthi mandal saw the highest polling at 80.74 per cent. Mundlamur followed with 75.49 per cent, Kothapatnam with 75.29 per cent and Darsi with 74.59 per cent. Ongole mandal recorded 69.86 per cent polling, while Kandukur mandal recorded the lowest polling at 56.24 per cent.

Collector P Raja Babu, District Election Observer KVN Chakradhara Babu, and joint collector Kalpana Kumari monitored polling live from Prakasam Bhavan in Ongole.

They checked the voter queues, security arrangements and the work of the polling staff through webcasting. Along with sub-collector Himavamsi, collector Raja Babu visited polling stations 26 and 27 at the Kondamudusupalem secretariat and at the elementary school on the Ankamma temple premises in the Kandukur division.

Joint collector Kalpana Kumari visited polling stations in Kothapatnam mandal. She went to stations 5, 6, 7 and 8 in Alluru village and stations 21, 22, 23 and 24 in Pallepalem village. In the evening, Collector Raja Babu, Superintendent of Police V Harshavardhan Raju, Joint collector Kalpana Kumari, Kandukur Sub collector Hima Vamsi, and Zilla Parishad Chief Executive Officer Chiranjeevi visited the strong rooms of the ballot boxes at QISCET and RISE colleges.

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Naresh Nandam

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Naresh Babu Nandam works as a Special Correspondent at The Hans India and primarily covers the erstwhile Prakasam district. He has a master's degree in Journalism and Mass Communication and a bachelor's degree in Law. He has around twenty years of experience in print and broadcast journalism. He is a certified Google News Initiative trainer for fact-checking and online verification. Outside his journalism work, he is an OSINT practitioner and takes part in CTF challenges. He is the author of a spiritual thriller titled 'The Amber Scroll', available on Amazon.in.

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