Election fever has gathered momentum in six districts of North Coastal Andhra Pradesh (NCAP) after the release of the MLC election schedule for the biennial elections to the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Council to be held on March 13 to elect 13 MLCs, including one from the NCAP. Graduate Constituency.
As per the schedule, the Election Commission of India (ECI) will issue the notification on February 16. The last date for filing nominations is February 23. The scrutiny of nominations is February 24. The last date for withdrawal of nomination is February 27. Voting will be held on March 13 from 8 am to 4 pm, counting of votes will be held on March 16.
Early last year, the YSR Congress Party declared Seethamraju Sudhakar as its candidate, while the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) recently declared Vepada Chiranjeevi Rao as its candidate. Koredla Ram Prabha is the candidate from Progressive Democratic Front (PDF). Erle Sriram Murthy is a TDP rebel. Party sources said that the BJP and the Jana Sena Party have not announced their candidates yet, but PVN Madhav may again contest from the BJP.
Political analysts said that there has been a lot of change compared to the 2017 election. This year the number of voters has almost doubled. As per the final list released on December 30, 2022, the total number of registered voters is 2,83,749. Their number may cross 3 lakh as the Election Commission (EC) has allowed graduates (up to 2019 graduates) to register till mid-February. In 2017, the registered graduate voters were only 1.7 lakh in the NCAP area.
With the election code of conduct coming into force, the election officials have started making arrangements with the officers and police assigned to man the polling stations in the NCAP area. According to official sources, over 395 polling stations will be set up in each mandal of the area, with 1,400 voters per polling station. Although there are only 53 voters in Upper Seeleru on the Andhra-Odisha border, a polling station has been set up. The ballot boxes of all the six districts will be kept under tight security in the strong room at Swarna Bharti Indoor Stadium in Visakhapatnam city.
Mr. Madhav’s tenure will end on March 29. The BJP won the MLC seat for the first time after the reorganization of the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Council in 2007. The then ruling TDP supported the BJP in the 2017 elections. Madhav won against the then PDP candidate Avadhanula Aaja Sharma by a margin of 5,712 votes.
The NCAP then consisted of three districts. But now it is divided into Srikakulam, Vizianagaram, Manyam-Parvathipuram, ASR-Paderu, Anakapalle and Visakhapatnam districts.
talking to Hindu, PDF candidate Rama Prabha said, “This time we will definitely win the seat. Issues such as the privatization of the Vizag steel plant and the current state of the YSR Congress Party-led state government will favor the PDF, which it lost to the BJP in 2017 by a margin of 5,000 votes.
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Graduate electors announced latest (December 30, 2022)
Srikakulam – 51356
Vizianagaram – 58059
Manyam – Parvathipuram – 18357
ASR-Paderu – 11424
Visakhapatnam – 103459
Anakapalle – 41094
North Coastal Andhra – 283749