Hyderabad: A highly emotionally charged and communalised campaign by political parties for the elections to Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) elections finally concluded at 6 pm on Sunday.
The polling will be held on December 1 (Tuesday) and results will be declared on December 4 (Friday). As soon as the campaign ended, providing for cooling off period, parties and candidates are now keenly awaiting election day.
A night before the poll campaign ended, TRS chief and Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao is reportedly confident of retaining power in greater Hyderabad. He is reported to have told his leaders, “we have sent a message to all sections of people. Now they have to decide whether they want peace and prosperity or disturbances.”
Sources close to CM Rao disclosed that he said, “with forces rallying against us, I was left with only option – to place my views before people.”
Sources claimed that Rao believed strongly that Hyderabad people will…