New Delhi: The victory of Dubbaka by-election will be repeated in the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) election as well, Telangana Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Arvind Dharmapuri said on Friday.
GHMC election Live updates:
Former Hyderabad Mayor and AIMIM candidate Mohammad Majid Hussain wins from Mehdipatnam.
The transformation has started in the state of Telangana. You have seen Lok Sabha election results then Dubbaka by-election & now GHMC. Let us wait till the evening, but it is clear message to TRS that people want change: Telangana BJP MP D Arvind #GHMCPolls pic.twitter.com/cNNROl9bFy
— ANI (@ANI) December 4, 2020
Telangana: Counting for Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) elections underway; visuals from LB Stadium counting centre. #GHMCPolls pic.twitter.com/RP486Dw7xy
— ANI (@ANI) December 4, 2020
Earlier today, Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao’s daughter and MLC from TRS K Kavitha said that her party is expected to win as many as 100 seats in the GHMC polls today.
We are expecting to win over 100 seats. Although many big leaders from BJP came to campaign and made many false claims, I’m happy that people of Hyderabad did not believe in them & reposed their faith in KCR’s leadership: Telangana Rashtra Samithi leader K Kavitha #GHMCElections pic.twitter.com/TYKTjrJ0Mc
— ANI (@ANI) December 4, 2020
In the Hyderabad city commissionerate, 817 new polling stations have been set up as compared to 2016. There are 2,146 normal polling stations, 1,517 sensitive polling stations, and 167 hypersensitive polling stations.
In the last GHMC election, the Telangana Rashtra Samithi won in 99 wards. AIMIM bagged 44, with the remaining seven wards won by other parties and Independents.