Karimnagar: Voting in Karimnagar parliamentary constituency started at a slow pace on Monday morning and its pace increased by afternoon. By the time polling ended at 6 pm, the voting percentage stood at 67.67.
Till 9 am the voting percentage was 10.01. At 11 am it increased to 45.11 percent and by 3 pm it increased to 58.24 percent. Irrespective of the scorching heat, voters came out of their homes and exercised their franchise.
Election Returning Officer, District Collector Pamela Satpathy visited some polling stations and closely inspected the voting process and monitored the webcasting from time to time.
Of the seven assembly constituencies under Karimnagar Lok Sabha, the highest voting percentage was recorded in Husnabad assembly constituency at 73.63; After this, 71.26 percent voting took place in Vemulawada assembly constituency, 71.11 percent voting in Mankondur and 55.82 percent voting in Karimnagar assembly constituency.
Surprisingly, the top three assembly constituencies – Husnabad, Vemulawada, and Mankondur, which recorded the highest voting percentage – were represented by Congress MLAs – respectively, Transport Minister Ponnam Prabhakar, Government Chief Whip Adi Srinivas and DCC President Kavvampalli Satyanarayana. Did it.
Candidates for Karimnagar Lok Sabha Constituency No. 28, but the main fight is between the candidates of Congress, BJP and BRS.
Amid tight police security, 17,97,150 people voted at 2,194 polling stations in the parliamentary constituency. About 10,200 policemen were on duty.
BJP candidate Bandi Sanjay Kumar exercised his franchise at Jyothi Nagar and Congress candidate Velichala Rajendra along with his family members cast his vote at a polling booth in Christian Colony. BRS party candidate B Vinod Kumar along with his family members cast their vote at Urdu Medium High School in Mukurampura Colony of Karimnagar city.
Transport Minister Ponnam Prabhakar and her family members exercised their franchise at the Government High School in Husnabad city.
Election flying squad officials raided the house of BRS party 16th ward councilor Gudla Srinivas in Sircilla Municipality and seized liquor stock worth Rs 25,000 meant for distribution to voters.
Tension prevailed briefly as voters expressed anger at polling officials after waiting in queues for two hours after 245 of the total 718 votes were cast at polling station 101 in Katta Lingapet village of Chandurathi mandal. EVM stopped working. Rajanna Sircilla District.
Polling official Shankar explained to the voters that the control unit suddenly broke down, due to which the EVM stopped working. After some time the officials replaced it with a new EVM and the voting process started again.
BJP’s Karimnagar Parliament convener B Praveen Rao lodged a complaint with the Election Commission, demanding immediate action against some Congress workers who were “indirectly seeking votes by wearing T-shirts which read, S. No. 4 But vote for the Congress Party candidate.” The complainant said that this is a violation of the model code of conduct.
Police seized unaccounted money worth Rs 9.10 crore under Karimnagar parliamentary constituency, which includes liquor worth Rs 2.16 crore and dry ganja worth Rs 4 crore. Around 16 cases were registered for violation of the election code of conduct under the parliamentary constituency limits.
