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Villagers vote for deceased BRS supported candidate in Chintala Tana

Election officials review rules after crediting win to dead candidate

Hyderabad: A dead candidate has won a Telangana sarpanch election in a rare and widely discussed incident reported from Rajanna Sircilla district. Cherla Murali, also referred to as Charla or Varla Murali, secured the win from Chintala Tana village in Vemulawada. He passed away on December 5 following a sudden heart attack, just hours after submitting his nomination papers. However, polling continued as planned and later produced this unusual result.

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Officials had already completed the ballot printing process before Murali’s death. Therefore, his name stayed on the ballot because

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