Andhra Pradesh Governor ESL Narasimhan, Chief Electoral Officer Bhanwarlal and Director General of Police B Prasada Rao were among the eminent personalities who voted in Hyderabad.
People of Telangana today turned out in big numbers to cast their votes in the largely peaceful polls as an air of expectancy enveloped the region that would formally recieve the statehood tag in less than five weeks.
Nearly 90,000 security personnel have been deployed to ensure peaceful and smooth conduct of first phase of General Elections for 17 parliamentary constituencies and 119 Assembly seats in Telangana region of Andhra Pradesh on Wednesday.
April 30, 2014 will be a big day for 2.81 crore voters in Telangana as they exercise their franchise for electing the first government of the new state that will formally come into existence on June 2.
President Pranab Mukherjee has given his approval for the dissolution of the Andhra Pradesh Assembly and a fresh proclamation of central rule in the state.
Congress, TDP and BJP are the main culprits responsible for bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh, YSR Congress leader Sharmila said here on Monday.
Telugu Desam Party (TDP) urged the Election Commission (EC) on Monday to take steps for free and fair polls in the district, where they alleged that the YSR Congress dominates with muscle power, sources said.
Campaigning by political parties came to an end on Monday in Telangana, where 2.82 crore electorate are eligible to exercise their franchise on April 30.
For Seemandhra residents, yearning for a capital city seems to be a never-ending saga since Independence and it has become a poll issue this time.
Some BJP supporters allegedly hurled eggs at Union Minister and AP Congress election campaign committee chief K Chiranjeevi during a public meeting here Friday after his remarks against Narendra Modi calling him a "Hitler" and "tyrant", police said.
BJP today promised to extend from five years to ten years the special status to Seemandhra region after bifurcation, senior leader M Venkaiah Naidu said in Rajahmundry, Andhra Pradesh.
The union cabinet Friday recommended dissolution of Andhra Pradesh Assembly and extension of president`s rule in the state, official sources said.
An Election Commission-appointed surveillance team on Friday seized Rs 8.18 crore of unaccounted cash from two persons in Shamshabad in poll-bound Andhra Pradesh.
In Khammam Lok Sabha seat in Telangana, it is a clash of high contrast between capitalists and a communist leader, and this is a constituency where settlers in significant numbers from different regions could tilt the scales in no small measure.
Congress decided to bifurcate Andhra Pradesh only after obtaining written approvals from the Telugu Desam Party, BJP and the YSR Congress, Andhra Pradesh Congress Committee president N Raghuveera Reddy said Thursday.
Union Tourism Minister K Chiranjeevi said here Thursday that Andhra Pradesh has not lost anything after granting separate statehood to the Telangana region.
YSR Congress leader Bhuma Shobha Nagi Reddy, who was injured in a road accident late Wednesday, died at a private hospital here Thursday, party leaders said.
As many as 143 candidates are left in the fray for 10 Assembly seats and 23 for two Lok Sabha constituencies in Kadapa district of Andhra Pradesh which will go to the polls on May 7.