Hyderabad: Campaigning by political parties for the GHMC elections ended on Sunday evening and the parties are set for the elections on Tuesday. It is now the turn of the 74,23,980 voters to decide the fate of the 1,333 candidates in 150 divisions.
GHMC officials have made all arrangements for polling and police will occupy the 7,802 polling booths by Monday evening. Officials have made arrangements for webcasting in sensitive polling booths apart from using police mounted cameras and surveillance cameras.
Based on the instructions given by the POs, police will deploy forces at the respective polling booths. Three to four armed policemen will be deployed at each polling booth with more at sensitive and hyper sensitive localities.
With Mehdipatnam being the smallest with 29,854 voters, the results of this division are expected to be declared first on February 5. Subhashnagar under Quthbullapur has the most voters with 89,159 followed by Mylardevpally (76,038) and Kondapur (72,911).
Officials have advised new voters to check their names in auxiliary lists instead of the main list. They have advised voters to download their voter’s slip and their polling booth details from the web url http://tsec.gov.in/mis/dowmloadVoterSlipGHMC.do.
Voters’ slips can also be downloaded from a mobile app and smartphone users should search “xtsec voter slip” on Google play store.
