Hyderabad: The Telangana Assembly Elections to elect representatives for the 119-member Legislative Assembly starts today. The youngest state of India will vote to elect representatives for the third time since its separation from Andhra Pradesh.
Telangana will witness a three-way battle between the incumbent Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) led by Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao, Congress, and the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP).
The BRS is trying to retain power for a third consecutive term, while the Congress has been fighting tooth and nail to wrest power from it. The BJP has left no stone unturned to get to power.
BRS has fielded candidates in all 119 seats. As per the seat-sharing agreement, BJP and Jana Sena are contesting in 111 and 8 seats respectively while Congress gave one seat to its ally CPI(M).
Asaduddin Owaisi-led AIMIM has put up candidates in nine segments in the city.
