At last, Telangana is going to polls most likely in November or December, as predicted by Telangana Rashtra Samithi president and caretaker chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao during the dissolution of the assembly early this month.
The Election Commission of India members, who met in New Delhi on Friday, are learnt to have decided to combine the assembly elections of Telangana along with that of four other states – Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Mizoram.
The EC members reportedly expressed satisfaction over the report submitted by EC official Umesh Sinha on the preparedness of Telangana in conducting the elections.
Another committee of the EC would be coming to Telangana in another week or 10 days to have a final assessment of the ground situation in the state.
After that, the EC will come to a conclusion on the exact date of the elections in Telangana. “In any case, the schedule is expected to be announced for five states in the second week of October,” the EC sources said.
Once the schedule is announced, the actual election heat will pick up in the state. So, political parties are gearing up for an interesting battle very soon!
