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Byelection schedule for Narayankhed
The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Tuesday announced the schedule for byelection to Narayankhed Assembly constituency in Medak District. The announcement came even as the political parties are chalking out strategies for the polls to the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC).
Sangareddy: The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Tuesday announced the schedule for byelection to Narayankhed Assembly constituency in Medak District. The announcement came even as the political parties are chalking out strategies for the polls to the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC).
As per the schedule, polling for Narayankhed byelection would be held on February 13 and the counting of votes would be taken up on February 16. The bypoll has been caused by the untimely death of sitting member P Kishta Reddy. The former MLA died of a massive cardiac stroke on August 25 last year.
Notification for the byelection would be issued on January 20 and the last date for filing nominations is January 27. The scrutiny of nominations would be taken up on January 28 and the last date for withdrawal of candidatures would be January 30.
The EC announced that the model code of conduct would come into force with immediate effect in the district. Further, the EC stated that the by-election to Narayankhed would be held with the existing electoral roll. As per the final electoral roll published by the EC on January 17 last year,
the total electorate in the constituency is 2,04,575 including 1,03,650 male, 1,00,910 female and 15 third-gender voters. The coverage of electronic photo identity cards was also 100 per cent. The ruling Telangana Rashtra Samith (TRS) spiked the efforts of the Congress to ensure unanimous election of its candidate as the vacancy was caused by the untimely death of its sitting member.
When a sitting member died in the past, the party to which he or she belonged would get an opportunity to get its candidate elected unanimously. The ruling party in the run up to the announcement of byelection schedule had paid special attention on the constituency for the last four months by launching several development programmes.
A triangular contest appears on cards in Narayankhed with the TRS decision to contest the byelection. It would be contest between Congress, TRS and TDP. In the 2014 election, P Kishta Reddy defeated his nearest TRS rival M. Bhupal Reddy by a margin of 14,746 votes. Additional Joint Collector Venkateswarlu will be the Returning Officer for the election.
