KCR’s party ahead, Owaisi’s second in GHMC polls
BJP ahead in postal ballots
Hyderabad, Dec 4: The BJP was leading over its Rivals in postal ballots which were taken up first in the counting of votes on Friday in the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) elections.
In keeping with the leads, the TRS or Telangana Rashtra Samiti of Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao is forward in 57 seats, Asaduddin Owaisi’s AIMIM in 30 seats and the BJP in 28.
The BJP was leading in around 80 wards while the ruling TRS is ahead in around 20 in postal ballots.
However, the party lead position would be known as the votes cast in the ballot boxes are counted.
Ballot papers were used in the election to the 150- ward city civic body on December 1.
The counting of votes began at 8 AM with postal ballots being counted first.
The results are expected to be known in the evening.
The polling percentage in the election was an unimpressive 46.55.
Out of the 74.67 lakh voters, 34.50 lakh electors exercised their franchise.
While the ruling TRS fielded candidates in all the 150 wards, the BJP did so in 149 wards.
The Congress, AIMIM and TDP fielded candidates in 146, 51 and 106 wards respectively.
With BJP leading as per the initial trends, Union Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said that "policies of transformative development are hard to beat."
"Early trends emerging from Hyderabad indicate a change in popular mood & shape of things to come," he said.
"Policies of transformative development are hard to beat & always triumph over hollow populism & fake narrative," he said in a tweet.
The party's National General Secretary (Organisation), B L Santhosh lauded the Telangana BJP unit saying "you made a mark."
"WELDONE BHAGYANAGAR ......!!!! Great going team @BJP4Telangana You made a mark," he tweeted.
He further said the party's state unit was up against "a deadly mix of communal, money & manipulative politics." "With this, Team @bandisanjay_bjp (State BJP chief) have put up a great fight," he said.
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Fire breaks out in residential building in east Delhi, nine killed
New Delhi (PTI): At least nine people were killed after a fire broke out in a residential building in east Delhi's Vivek Vihar early Sunday, officials said.
The incident was reported around 3.48 am at a four-storey building in Vivek Vihar Phase-I, following which police, fire and disaster management teams rushed to the spot.
According to the police, the blaze engulfed flats on the second, third and fourth floors of the building, prompting a large-scale rescue operation.
The cause of the fire is yet to be ascertained.
"Around 10 to 15 people were rescued from the premises during the firefighting operation. Two of them, who sustained minor injuries, were shifted to the Guru Teg Bahadur Hospital," a senior police officer said.
A total of 12 fire tenders were pressed into service to douse the flames, while teams from the Delhi Disaster Management Authority (DDMA), traffic police and local police assisted in the rescue and evacuation efforts.
Police said the fire was brought under control after several hours.
The identities of the deceased are yet to be ascertained, and efforts are underway to determine the cause of the fire, police said.
Further investigation and proceedings are underway.
