Hyderabad: Repolling in 69 polling stations in the Old Malakpet division was completed on Thursday, with 54,655 people, who make up 42.5 per cent of the electorate, exercising their voting right.
Though the repoll was broadly peaceful, CPI candidate’s election agent and CPI city executive council member Syed Abid Hussain Naqvi complained that he was attacked by MIM candidate’s supporters.
According to Naqvi, Mohammed Ghouse, brother-in-law of MIM candidate Juweria Fatima, Khalid, Wajihuddin and others attacked him near polling booth number 18 and 19 at Unique School, when he objected to their presence.
The repoll was held after the CPI’s contesting candidate Dr Firdaus Fatima complained about erroneous depiction of her party symbol on the ballot paper. Immediately acting on the complaint, the State Election Commission suspended the polling in the division on Tuesday and ordered a repoll on Thursday.
Hyderabad police commissioner Anjani Kumar visited the division…