NEW DELHI: The Election Commission is likely to announce the byelection schedule for the 12 Assembly constituencies in Telangana region of the State “shortly” and the date for publication of revised list of electoral rolls in the State has been advanced to June 25 from the first week of July.
Sources said the EC did not want to wait till the last minute though the vacancies could be filled before August 14. The 12 MLAs, 10 from TRS and one each from the TDP and BJP had quit their posts during the height of the pro-Telangana stir protesting the “unfair terms of reference (ToR)” announced for the Justice B.N. Srikrishna Committee which has been asked to go in to the demands for “united Andhra Pradesh” and “separate Telangana.” The date would be worked out considering all factors including holidays, festivals, availability of security personnel and other events.
TRS president K. Chandrasekhar Rao has already declared that the result of the byelection would be the report of Telangana people to the Justice Srikrishna Committee. It was the responsibility of the region's people to ensure a huge win for the candidates, he said.
As the TRS has openly warned that it would not allow the candidature of persons whose parties had opposed “separate Telangana” and in view of violence witnessed during the pro-Telangana protests the commission wanted to ensure that absolute peace prevailed during the poll and the voters exercised their franchise in a free and fearless manner and the poll campaign carried out in a democratic atmosphere, sources said.
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