While Haryana and Maharashtra underwent assembly elections yesterday and Uttar Pradesh saw bypolls, the crucial by-election to Huzurnagar Assembly constituency in Suryapet district of Telangana, also happened yesterday.
More than 80 per cent turnout was recorded. The polling ended peacefully at 5 pm.
A huge turnout of 82.23 per cent was recorded till 5 pm. A turnout of 85.96 per cent was recorded in the constituency in the Assembly elections held in December 2018.
Though 28 candidates are in the fray, the contest is among the candidates of ruling TRS, Congress, BJP and TDP. The bypoll, the first after last year’s assembly elections in Telangana, has been necessitated due to the resignation of state Congress president N Uttam Kumar Reddy following his election to Lok Sabha in the general elections.
The Huzurnagar bypoll is crucial for ruling TRS to reaffirm its dominance in state politics as the party had suffered an unexpected setback in the Lok Sabha polls.
A win in Huzurnagar is important for Congress also as it seeks to take on the ruling TRS in the coming years.
TDP, which has been pushed to the margins in Telangana after a number of its leaders joined the TRS during the last several, is also keen on putting up a decent performance in the Huzurnagar bye-election to revive itself in the state.