{"id":495045,"date":"2023-11-30T12:24:43","date_gmt":"2023-11-30T06:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=495045"},"modified":"2023-11-30T12:27:15","modified_gmt":"2023-11-30T06:57:15","slug":"asaduddin-owaisi-telangana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/politics\/asaduddin-owaisi-telangana\/","title":{"rendered":"Telangana elections: AIMIM MP Asaduddin Owaisi urges people to vote to strengthen democracy and nation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>AIMIM MP Asaduddin Owaisi cast his vote at St Faiz school in the Rajendra nagar assembly constituency on Thursday. He urged people to vote to exercise their franchise to strengthen democracy and further restore faith in the constitution during the ongoing Telangana state elections. Voting started at 7am at various polling booths across the state amid heavy security arrangements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking to the media Owaisi said it is not a day to celebrate at home. He stressed on the importance of every vote. He said if the people caste their vote, then the accountability of politicians will also increase. He said first time voters have a greater responsibility to fulfill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WATCH?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WATCH<\/a> | On polling day for Telangana Assembly elections, AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi says, &quot;I urge the people of Telangana to exercise their vote to create more confidence in the Constitution, to strengthen the democracy and to ensure that development and communal harmony in\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CLTCllJ4r5\">pic.twitter.com\/CLTCllJ4r5<\/a><\/p>&mdash; ANI (@ANI) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ANI\/status\/1730087373445451897?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 30, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;Voting is taking place at 35,655 polling stations across the state. He appealed to the families to preserve the Ganga Jamuna Tehzeeb and take Telangana towards development. Owaisi is a three time member of the parliament, representing the Hyderabad constituency in Lok Sabha. The city has been a stronghold of AIMIM since 1984 and Owaisi is seeking re-election<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the first time in Telangana home voting for citizens aged over 80 years and persons with disabilities has also been made available. About 27,600 voters have been enlisted to cast their vote during the elections. An election official said about 1000 voters have also been registered for the electronically transmitted Postal Ballot system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BRS leader K Kavitha, Telangana minister and BRS MLA KT Rama Rao, state Congress chief Revanth Reddy and others cast their votes. In the first state elections Telangana, the Congress party got 25.20 percent votes and BRS got 34 percent in the Telangana area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the year 2018 BRS won 88 of the 119 seats and had 47.4% of the vote share. The Congress came in the second position with nineteen seats. The counting of votes is going to take place on Dec 3. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking to the media Owaisi said it is not a day to celebrate at home. He stressed on the importance of every vote. He said if the people caste their vote, then the accountability of politicians will also increase. 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