Polling for the 17 Lok Sabha constituencies in Telangana was conducted peacefully on Monday with no untoward incident being reported from any part of the State. Repolling was not ordered not even in one of the 35,809 polling stations.
The huge turnout of voters likely to be close to 70% — compared to 62.77% seen in 2019 — has left the three main contenders, ruling Congress, the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) guessing about the prospects of their respective candidates in the election which is likely to witness triangular contests in some of the constituencies.
Voting started on a sedate note at 7 a.m. with just 9.7% of voters exercising their franchise in the first two hours, but picked up momentum over the next four hours crossing 40% by 1 p.m. with some of the constituencies reporting over 50% voting by then. The tempo continued till 5 p.m. when the overall poll percentage reached 61.23%.
