Stage set for Council elections in AP

Chittoor, Andhra Pradesh, Mar 16 (UNI) The district administration today made necessay arrangemnts for the conduct of free and fair elections to the Legislative Coundil seats under the Local authority Constituency(LAC), teachers and graduate constituencies in 298 polls stations to be held tomorrow.

Candidates contesting from the East Rayalaseema constituency comprising Chittoor, Nellore and Prakasam for one seat each under the teachers and graduates quota have notched up their campaign which ended yesterday.

As for the teachers seat, there are 12 contestants, while it there 31 contestants under the graduates constituency.

A total of 14,638 voters had registered their names in the teachers constituency and the highest voters were recorded in Chittoor district (6,159) followed by Prakasam (4,276) and Nellore (4,023).

In the graduate constituency, 1,61,124 voters had registered their names and Chittoor tops the list with 59,147 voters, followed by Prakasam (54,032) and Nellore (47,945), an official source said here.

In view of huge coverage of the area constituency, contesting candidates were forced to focus their poll campaign only in their respective native districts.

Polling would be held from 0800 hrs to 1600 hrs and counting of local bodies would take place on March 23 and teachers and graduates on March 25, the official added.

As a precautionary measure, elaborate security arrangements were made in and around the towns in the district.

UNI