Telangana: Its raining nominations for assembly and Lok Sabha seats

People chose to file the nomination papers just hours before the expiry of the deadline as they got their names cleared for party tickets only at the last minute while most of them considered yesterday as an auspicious day.

A record number of 73 nominations were filed for the Nizamabad Lok Sabha constituency followed by 64 nominations for Secunderabad Lok Sabha, according to the data collected by the inforrmation department. The nominations received for each of the Assembly segments ranged from as low as 10 to as high as 75. The LB Nagar Assembly segment in Rangareddy district received the highest number of 75 nominations.

Among the 10 districts, Hyderabad received the highest number of 584 nomination papers for the Assembly elections followed by 548 by Ranga Reddy district. Nalgonda district stood third with 406 nominations.

Almost all the constituencies are expected to face multi-corner contests as majority parties including the Congress, the TRS and the YSR Congress are going alone in this election. Only the the TDP and the BJP have jointly fielded the candidates as a part of the pre-poll alliance between the two.

Several people who failed to secure party tickets had also filed nominations as rebel candidates in their respective constituencies though the clear picture will emerge only after the last day of the withdrawal of nomination papers.

Telangana Congress Committee president Ponnala Laxmaiah today openly appealed to the rebel candidates from his party to withdraw from the elections. A similar effort both at the party level as well as in the individual capacity by the official candidates is underway across all the political parties. Time for withdrawal of nominations is till Saturday.