Nalgonda Parliament member and former PCC chief N. Uttam Kumar Reddy has predicted that Telangana Assembly polls would be held in May or June 2023, along with Karnataka, as Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao plans to dissolve the Assembly earlier to evade Assembly polls clashing with Parliament elections in 2024.
Mr. Reddy said if the State government decides to go for elections in December 2023 as per schedule, there is a likelihood of the Election Commission of India (ECI) combining them with Parliament polls in April 2024. Generally, ECI prefers to combine Assembly elections and Parliament elections if the gap between them is less than six months.
“So to escape that, Mr. Rao will go for early polls,” Mr. Reddy opined.
