Hyderabad (PTI): The Telangana State Election Commission on Tuesday announced a single-phase schedule for municipal elections in the state to be held on February 11 for seven municipal corporations and 116 municipalities.

As per the schedule, the election notice will be issued on January 28 and from the same day the nominations will be taken, State Election Commissioner I Rani Kumudini told reporters here.

The last date for filing nominations is January 31.

After scrutiny and withdrawals, the final list of contesting candidates will be announced on February 3.

The date of the poll is February 11 and counting will be done on February 13 and the results will be declared soon after the counting process is completed, she said.

"This is the schedule for direct elections to all the 2,996 wards covering 116 municipalities and seven municipal corporations," she said.

The registered voters are 52.43 lakh -- 25.62 lakh male voters and 26.8 lakh female voters and others are 640.

Kumudini appealed to the voters to exercise their franchise on the poll day.

The Telangana Cabinet on January 18 decided to conduct elections to the municipalities and corporations as early as possible.

Gram panchayat elections were conducted in Telangana in December last year.

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Tiruchirapalli (PTI): A campaign office of the actor Vijay-led TVK was allegedly torched by unidentified miscreants in Kamanayakkanpalayam village near Srirangam in the early hours of Friday, police said.

According to the police, the damage is minimal. Fire had engulfed the thatched roof providing shade at the entrance of the building that served as the party’s election office for the Srirangam constituency.

While on social media, a CCTV footage of two unidentified men fleeing on motorbike is being circulated as the culprits, police said the video footage is yet to be verified.

Based on a complaint lodged by TVK, the Pettaivaithalai Police have registered a case and initiated a search for the perpetrators.