Hyderabad: Polling for the second phase of gram panchayat elections in Telangana began on Sunday, December 13, across 193 mandals. Elections are being held for 3,911 gram panchayat sarpanch posts and 29,917 ward member posts.

A total of 12,782 candidates are in the fray for sarpanch positions, while 71,071 candidates are contesting for ward member posts. As many as 57,22,465 voters are eligible to exercise their franchise at 38,337 polling stations.

Voting will continue till 1 pm, following which counting of votes will begin at 2 pm and results will be announced thereafter. Subsequently, meetings with ward members will be held to elect the respective deputy sarpanch.

Total of 4333 sarpanch posts originally issued for elections

In the second phase, notification was originally issued fo

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