Over 200 voters boycott voting in Telangana's Kothagudem
May 09, 2024
Kothagudem (Telangana) [India], May 9 : Hundreds of voters of Aadivasi Nagar in the Kothagudem Assembly constituency in Telangana have boycotted voting amid the ongoing Lok Sabha polls.
Kothagudem assembly constituency is in the Khammam Lok Sabha constituency of Telangana.
More than 200 voters in the tribal community have said that there is no road and no electricity in their colony.
Due to a lack of basic facilities, people have decided to boycott the voting.
People say that they are boycotting the vote with a sad heart. But if the administration or the government assures them that the problems of roads, water and electricity will be solved in Aadivasi Nagar, then they will be ready to vote.
In Aadivasi Nagar of Kothagudem (Prashant Nagar), there are more than 400 people in 70 families and more than 200 voters.
Assistant Returning Officer D. Madhu of Kothagudem said that as soon as the information came to the department, the officer met the people of the village.
The officials have assured them that their problem will be solved.
"We have requested that everyone vote; it is their right. The voters of the village have promised us that they will vote," Madhu said.
In the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, Nama Nageswar Rao won the seat, bagging 5,67,459 votes. The runner-up was Renuka Chowdhury of the Congress. Since its inception in 1952, Khammam has been a Congress stronghold, where it has won 12 times
The Khammam Lok Sabha constituency consists of seven assembly seats, including Khammam, Palair, Madhira, Wyra, Sathupalli, Kothagudem, and Aswaraopeta.
Voting for all 17 seats in Telangana will take place on May 13 in the fourth phase of the Lok Sabha Elections 2024. In the 2019 general election, Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) won nine seats, the Bharatiya Janata Party four, Congress three and AIMIM one seat.
The voting for the first three phases has been completed so far. The next round of voting will be held on May 13. Lok Sabha polls are being held across seven phases till June 1 and votes will be counted on June 4.
