Himachal Pradesh Election Counting Results 2012

Himachal Pradesh Election Counting Results 2012

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Himachal Pradesh Election Counting Results 2012

The polling for the 68 seats of Himachal Pradesh assembly began amid tight security on November 4th, 2012. 

Electors across the state could be seen reaching polling stations even before voting started at 8 a.m. Poll officials said there has been no report of any delay in starting the poll process. The polling will end at 5 p.m. Poll officials are expecting heavy polling as the weather is clear and sunny. 

A record number of 459 candidates, including 27 women, are in the fray. The Election Commission has set up 7,253 polling stations for 46,08,359 electors, including 23,76,587 men. The main contest is between the Congress and the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). 

Congress leader and five-time chief minister Virbhadra Singh will cast vote at his native place in Rampur town, some 120 km from here, while Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal will exercise his franchise in Samirpur, now part of Bhoranj constituency. 

In 2007, the BJP won 41 seats, the Congress 23, the BSP one and independents three. The lone BSP legislator later joined the BJP. At that time, the poll percentage was 71.61 percent: men 68.36 percent and women 74.01 percent. 

Votes for the election will be counted Dec 20 2012.

Telangana Issue, Chandra Babu Letter to PM on Telangana

Telangana Issue, Chandra Babu Letter to PM on Telangana

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HYDERABAD: TDP Chief N Chandrababu Naidu on Wednesday night shot off a letter to PM Manmohan Singh requesting the Centre to convene an all-party meeting where his party's stand would be clearly spelt out. He reminded the PM that the TDP had made its stand known on the Telangana issue through a letter to the Pranab Mukherjee Committee way back in 2008. 

Accusing the Centre of "complicating" the statehood issue, Naidu said that its failure to take a call on the issue had pushed AP into a "deep crisis." He accused the Congress and the TRS of trying to gain political mileage out of the Telangana issue. Avoiding taking a stand on Telangana and attempting to fix the Congress, Telugu Desam president N. Chandrababu Naidu on Wednesday asked the Centre to convene an all-party meeting to end the deadlock on giving statehood for the region. 

Contrary to expectations that the TD would finally take a stand on Telangana, Mr Naidu, in his letter toPrime Minister Manmohan Singh late on Wednesday night, put the ball in the Centre’s court and asked it to resolve the issue at the earliest. Mr Naidu’s letter — which comes ahead of the September 30 T-march and his own padayatra starting onOctober 2 — may not cut much ice since he failed to take a stand on Telangana statehood. The TD has previously performed flip-flops on the Telangana issue. After extending support to Telangana in a letter to then finance minister Pranab Mukherjee, and asking the Centre to take a decision on statehood, he joined hands with the TRS for the 2009 polls and even wore a pink khandwa. However, he made an about-turn after Union minister P. Chidambaram announced the initiation of the process for carving out a separate Telangana on December 9, 2009.