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Bypolls to 10 of the 12 vacant Assembly
seats from Telangana will be held on July 27, the Election Commission announced
on Tuesday, setting the stage for a bitter political battle. Counting of votes
would be taken up on July 30 from 8 am.
Byelections will be held to Sirpur, Chennur (SC), Mancherial, Yellareddy,
Koratla, Dharmapuri (SC), Huzurabad, Siddipet and Warangal West that were held
by the TRS, and Nizamabad (Urban) which was held by the BJP.
Byelections will not be held in the Sircilla and Vemulawada, where election
petitions filed by losing candidates in the 2009 polls are pending in the AP
High Court.
In Sircilla, Mr Mahender Reddy, a TRS rebel, who lost by 171 votes, has alleged
irregularities in counting. In Vemulavala, Mr Adi Srinivas of the Congress
contended that the winner, Ch. Ramesh in 2009, was not an Indian citizen. The
TRS chief, Mr K. Chandrasekhar Rao, saw a “politically conspiracy” in the EC
leaving out these two seats.
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