GHMC election outcome 2020: BJP has counted ahead of TRS as postal ballots.

Published on December 4, 2020

Key points:

Via the ballot paper system, the counting of votes takes place, and the first result is predicted only after 11 am.
On December 1, the vote for the GHMC elections took place; though the turnout was dismal.
“We hope to win more than 100 seats.

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was seen leading the ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) as postal ballots were recorded at various counting centres throughout Hyderabad for the 150 wards Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) 2020 election on Friday.

BJP ahead of TRS:

As of 9:30 am the BJP was ahead in 50 out of 86 sections with the TRS 25 ahead. Via the ballot paper system, the counting of votes takes place, and the first result is predicted only after 11 am. The Hyderabad civic body has a total of 1,965 postal ballots in 150 divisions.

TRS leader K Kavitha to news agency ANI:

TRS leader K Kavitha shared confidence that her party will gain more than 100 seats, as opposed to 99 in the GHMC at the moment, having won in 2016. “We hope to win more than 100 seats.

While many of the BJP’s major leaders came to the campaign as well as made many false claims, I am pleased that people in Hyderabad simply didn’t believe in them and rested their confidence in the leadership of KCR,” Kavitha said while speaking to ANI news agency.

All at the IT centre:

The BJP fielded many heavyweights during the high-pitched drive, with Union Home Minister Amit Shah, Party President JP Nadda, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, and Youth Wing Chief Tejasvi Surya canvassing at the IT centre.

The BJP also boosted its pitch to rename Hyderabad as ‘Bhagyanagar’ and to pledge a “surgical strike” over the suspected involvement of Rohingyas and illegal immigrants in the city if it wins the mayoral polls.

A war of words with AIMIM:

A war of words with the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) of the Asaduddin Owaisi was triggered by the planks posed by the BJP during campaigning.

In 2016 elections:

On December 1, the vote for the GHMC elections took place; though the turnout was dismal. The AIMIM was second with 44 seats in the 2016 elections, preceded by the BJP with four seats, the Congress with two seats as well as the Telugu Desam Party with such a single seat.