No party has claimed that they would get this number of seats in the GHMC election. After evaluation, the SEC has announced that 46.6 poll percentage has been recorded and a repoll is to be conducted in the Old Malakpet area.
Chief Minister and TRS chief K. Chandrashekar Rao has called for a meeting of the TRS party election in-charges of all divisions at Pragathi Bhavan on Wednesday to get a sense of the polling trends. Sources said that he cautioned the leaders against making any claims with regard to the numbers till the party reviews the situation with more data at hand.
After the review, the Chief Minister is scheduled to go to Nizamabad.
The ground reports as of Tuesday night indicated that the TRS had a clear edge in 75 divisions. TRS leaders spoke of the general political belief that a low voter turnout always favours the incumbent. The low voter turnout in Tuesday’s elections has left the BJP and the Congress worried, more particularly the former which had mounted a massive campaign to win more wards in the GHMC, which covers 24 Assembly segments and five Lok Sabha constituencies.
With the final voting percentage figures coming in, the TRS sounded more confident that it would form the GHMC Council for the second term running. The AIMIM also sounded comfortable and even hoped to wrest Ghansi Bazaar which it had lost by a few votes in 2016.
