Hyderabad: The TRS, which has given a representation to the Election Commission to hold Lok Sabha elections in the state in the first phase, is now apprehensive that the controversy over voter deletion in neighbouring Andhra Pradesh may affect its plans.
Leaders who attended the all-party meeting conducted by Chief Electoral Officer Rajath Kumar on Wednesday said he had indicated that both states could have elections on the same day.
Political parties are expecting the Election Commission to announce the election schedule on March 9 as the NDA government at the Centre held its last Cabinet meeting on Thursday and Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s official programmes would end on Friday with his meeting in Lucknow. With indications from the EC that the polls would be held in the first phase in Telangana state, the state election office had published the final electoral rolls on February 22.
An official of the Chief Electoral Office said that they had faced several hurdles during the recent Assembly polls with regard to alleged deletion of votes and presence of fictious votes, which went up to the Supreme Court in October 2018.
Sources in the TRS disclosed that the party leadership would represent to the EC to delink the state with Andhra Pradesh, and have elections in the first phase.
Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao had already told the EC that if the elections were held in the first phase, the model code of conduct would end early and the state government could get on with developmental work.
