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All arrangements in place for assembly polls in Telangana tomorrow; Over 2,200 candidates in fray for 119 seats

In Telangana, the stage is set for tomorrow's polling in all 119 assembly constituencies with poll parties left for their designated polling stations. A total of 2290 candidates including 221 women and one transgender are contesting from over 100 parties including the national, regional and recognised parties besides over nine hundred Independents. Over 3 crore 26 lakh electors will exercise their franchise at 35655 polling stations from 7 AM till 5 PM tomorrow. The polling will come to an end by 4 PM at 13 left wing extremism affected constituencies. Elaborate security arrangements have been made for the polling.<br />'' <br />''AIR correspondent reports that 375 companies of central armed forces and 50 companies of State special police besides 45 thousand police personnel and over 23 thousand home guards from the neighbouring states have been deployed across the state. Especially, the deployment of central forces has been done at over 12000 sensitive polling station areas. Meanwhile, the poll parties have left for the designated polling stations from the facilitation centres in Hyderabad and other district headquarters. Besides model polling stations, the election authorities have set up fully women-operated and fully Divyang-operated polling stations with a determination to increase the turnout for polling, especially in Hyderabad district.<br />'' <br />''<span style="color: #222222;">Among the key personalities who are in the fray include, BRS Chief and Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao, BRS working president Taraka Ramarao, BJP Lok Sabha members B Sanjay Kumar, Soyam Bapurao and Arvind Kumar, Congress Lok Sabha Members Revanth Reddy, Uttam Kumar Reddy and Komati Reddy Venkat Reddy, MIM floor leader Akbaruddin Owaisi and over 100 sitting MLAs are seeking election for the third Assembly of Telangana State. </span>

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