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Last Updated: March 16, 2024, 20:06 IST
Counting of votes across the country for the Lok Sabha polls and the assembly elections will take place on June 4.
For the 2024 elections, the BJP has decided to field K Madhavi Latha, the chairperson of Virinchi Hospitals, against AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi from Hyderabad
Hyderabad will vote with the rest of Telangana in the fourth phase of the General Elections on May 13, the Election Commission said on Saturday, as the poll body announced the schedule for the much-awaited battle of 2024.
The counting of votes across the country for the Lok Sabha polls and the assembly elections will take place on June 4.
Telangana has a total of 17 seats in the Lok Sabha. In the 2019 election, the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS, formerly Telangana Rashtra Samithi or TRS) won nine seats, BJP won four, and Congress won three, while All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief Asaduddin Owaisi retained the party’s sole seat from the Hyderabad Lok Sabha constituency.
In 2019, Owaisi won 58.95 per cent of the votes, beating out BJP’s Bhagavanth Rao by a two lakh margin. Five years before that, in 2014, Owaisi won 52.94 per cent of the vote, with a similar two lakh vote margin.
The Lok Sabha election in 2004 was also the closest margin of victory for Asaduddin Owaisi, when he secured only 37.39 per cent of the total vote.
For the 2024 elections, the BJP has decided to field K Madhavi Latha, the chairperson of Virinchi Hospitals, against AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi from Hyderabad.
The seat has been the AIMIM’s stronghold since 1989, and Owaisi has won the past four Lok Sabha elections from here. Latha, whose social media presence has been on the rise in recent months, has hit out at Owaisi, recently calling him a ‘Razakar’ and alleging that Hindus in his constituency were “unsafe” because of him.
The Congress and the BSP are yet to announce a candidate for the seat.
