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Nandyal by-election campaign to conclude on August 21

  • In a few hours from now the Nandyal by-election campaign will close after months of political warfare
  • Campaign will close on 21st August at 6pm, election is on 23rd while the counting of votes would be on 28th
  • The 13-day camp of YCP chief Jagan and 3-day camp of CM Chandrababu will come to an end
  • But both TDP and YCP were unable to predict the by-election polls
Nandyal byelection campaign to conclude on August 21

The Nandyal by-election campaigning will be closed on 21st evening at 6pm after months of political warfare between the two leading parties, ruling TDP (Telugu Desam Party) and opposition YCP (Yuvajana Sramika Rythu Congress Party) in a neck-to-neck contest.

The Nandyal by-election had become mandatory when YCP decided to contest the election though it was a compassionate election with the demise of defected TDP MLA Bhuma Nagireddy. Nagireddy defected to TDP from YCP which made YCP contest the by-election.

Both TDP and YCP took the election as prestigious as it would decide the people’s verdict on the three-year rule of TDP and it would also be the precursor to 2019 elections. Amateur Bhuma Brahmananda Reddy is the TDP candidate while veteran politician Silpa Mohan Reddy is YCP’s candidate.

Though the MLAs, MLCs and leaders of both the parties have been campaigning for months, it is with the YCP supremo’s open air meeting on August 3rd that changed the tone of campaign. Jagan’s two-week camp from 9th and three-day camp of AP CM and TDP chief Nara Chandrababu Naidu in Nandyal intensified the heat.    

The high-profile campaign saw controversies, verbal warfare, accusations, allegations, personal abuses, money distribution, threatening of voters, kidnap dramas, police raids on leaders’ houses, party jumping, road shows, door-to-door campaigns, caste politics and everything imaginable.

The Nandyal Constituency has City, Rural and Gospadu Mandals with 2,18,852 voters and 110 poling centres with 225 polling booths. 71 Centres with 104 polling booths were recognised as problematic and security has been beefed up by the Election Commission.

The Central paramilitary forces were called in to oversee the entire election process as the opposition had doubts about the transparency of the poll. Election Commission has undertaken every measure to curtail discrepancies and to conduct a smooth polling. For the very first time VVPAT (Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail) technology is used in the by-election. Voter can see for whom they are casting their votes.

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