Overview
- Election officials start examining papers today, with the withdrawal deadline set for October 24.
- Filings continued past midnight on the final day, yielding 321 nomination sets from 211 candidates as some submitted multiple forms.
- Many entrants registered symbolic bids to spotlight grievances linked to RRR, Pharma City and Lagacherla land acquisition, as well as unemployment and SC sub-categorisation concerns.
- The ballot will feature Congress’s V. Naveen Yadav, BRS’s Maganti Sunitha and BJP’s Lankala Deepak Reddy, with AIMIM declaring support for the Congress nominee.
- Polling is scheduled for November 11 with counting on November 14, and the EC will deploy colour photos on EVMs, AI-based surveillance and GPS monitoring, with multiple EVM units likely due to the unusually large candidate list.