Telangana Polls  

Actor-turned-politician Chiranjeevi, popular Telugu hero Nagarjuna and director of 'Baahubali' S S Rajamouli were among the early voters in the election to the 119-member Telangana Assembly.

Rahul Gandhi criticised Telangana’s caretaker chief minister K Chandrashekhar Rao as a corrupt man, who promoted demonetisation and GST. He also called Rao as PM Modi’s remote control. 

Former ministers J Geetha Reddy, DK Aruna, Sunitha Laxma Reddy and Sabitha Indra Reddy are among the women candidates contesting in the upcoming Telangana Assembly polls
 

Pawan Kalyan had earlier claimed that Janasena would contest 23 Assembly seats and 3 Lok Sabha seats in Telangana. He now backed out of Telangana polls due to ‘time constraints’. 

PL Vishweshwar Rao, vice president of TJS, told reporters that the party will contest in 12 constituencies. This he announced before Mahakutami reached a formal agreement. 
 

As Telangana steps into election mode, inspector general of police (North Zone) Y Nagi Reddy says that the cops are prepared to tackle all kinds of threats including those from the Maoists.

Telangana Rashtra Samithi president and caretaker Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao will address a public meeting at Nizamabad on Wednesday, followed by meetings at Nalgonda on October 4, at Vanaparthi (near Mahabubnagar) on October 5 and at Warangal and Khammam on October 7 and 8, as per the schedule announced.

TRS chief and caretaker Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao had last week released a list of 105 candidates for the State's 119 seats immediately after the dissolution of the assembly.

Telangana: A petition has been moved through lunch motion by former minister Marri Shasidhar Reddy, who does not want elections to be conducted till the process of delimitation reaches its fag end.