TELANGANA ASSEMBLY POLLS: KEY CONSTITUENCIES TO WATCH OUT FOR

Assembly elections in Telangana are set to be held on Thursday and a three-way competition is anticipated among the ruling Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS), Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), and Congress.

Polling will be held in all 119 constituencies from 7 am to 6 pm, while the counting of votes will be taken up on December 3.

As many as 3.17 crore voters will exercise their franchise to elect legislators for a 119-member state Assembly. A total of 2,290 candidates from 109 parties including the national and regional parties are in the fray. The contestants include 221 women and one transgender.

A total of 103 legislators are re-contesting this time, most of them from the ruling BRS.

Some of the constituencies in the spotlight include Gajwel, Huzurabad, Korutla, Maheshwaram, Goshamahal, Mahbubnagar, LB Nagar, Warangal East and West, Bhupalapally, Khairatabad, Amberpet, Boath, Nirmal, Adilabad, Ramagundam, Peddapalli, Kothagudem, Armoor, Nizamabad Urban, Patancheru, Serilingampally, Husnabad, Dubbak, Kalwakurthy and others.

K Chandrashekar Rao, widely known as KCR, is contesting from two seats -- his original seat Gajwel and Kamareddy. While he is facing BJP leader Etela Rajender in Gajewal, Congress state unit chief Revanth Reddy is taking him on in Kamareddy.