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GHMC Elections 2020 Live Updates: Voting On In High-Stakes Hyderabad Civic Body Election

GHMC Elections 2020: Voting started at 7 am.

Hyderabad:

Over 74 lakh eligible voters are are eligible to vote right this moment within the election to the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation or GHMC. Polling started at 7 am. The election is going down after greater than per week of intense and vitriolic marketing campaign. The civic physique election is a high-stakes battle for the ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi, the BJP, attempting to make inroads, and Asaduddin Owaisi’s AIMIM. This has been probably the most fiercely and bitterly fought municipal elections ever in Hyderabad with a high-octane marketing campaign by the BJP that flew in nationwide leaders – like Amit Shah, JP Nadda and Yogi Adityanath – hoping to persuade Hyderabad {that a} change was wanted.

Here are the dwell updates on the Hyderabad municipal company election:

GHMC Polls LIVE: Top BJP Leaders Campaigned For The Polls

Top BJP leaders who had campaigned for the Hyderabad civic physique polls:

Union Home Minister Amit Shah, 

BJP chief JP Nadda

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath

Prakash Javadekar

Smriti Irani

G Kishan Reddy

Tejaswi Surya

Hyderabad Municipal Corporation Election: Asaduddin Owaisi Votes
AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi stated after voting, “I appeal to the people of Hyderabad to cast their vote today to strengthen democracy.”

Hyderabad Municipal Corporation Polls: Union Minister G Kishan Reddy Votes
“Following all Covid Safety Protocols, cast my vote along with my family at Kachiguda Polling Station earlier this morning. Voting is our constitutional right and all of us must exercise it in the interest of an able administration,” Mr Reddy tweeted after casting his vote.

Hyderabad Municipal Corporation Election
Union Minister of State for Home Affairs G Kishan Reddy ready in a queue at Deeksha Model School in Kachiguda to forged his vote.

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