Overview

• The Election Commission told the Telangana High Court it is examining claims of nearly 12,000 illegal bulk additions and multiple registrations in the constituency’s rolls.
• The Commission said it has sought a report from the District Election Officer and is acting on representations filed by the complainants.
• BRS candidate Maganti Sunitha Gopinath and party leader K. T. Rama Rao moved a lunch motion petition after submitting detailed complaints to the state Chief Electoral Officer on October 13 and 14.
• The ECI emphasized that electoral roll updation is a continuous process and will continue until the last date for filing nominations, with statutory Forms 6, 7 and 8 governing additions, deletions and transpositions.
• The bypoll schedule sets nominations through October 21, scrutiny on October 22, withdrawals until October 24, polling on November 11, counting on November 14, and an exit‑poll blackout from November 6 to 11.