The main contest is between TRS, BJP and Congress in Greater Warangal and Khammam municipal corporations and five other municipalities (Representative image)
HYDERABAD: The counting of votes for the seven municipal corporations and five wards will be taken up on Monday. State Election Commissioner C Partha Sarathi said counting will be conducted in strict adherence to Covid-19 protocols.
The polling was held on ballot papers on April 30. Over 1,300 candidates are in fray from 248 wards in the seven ULBs of Greater Warangal and Khammam Municipal Corporation and five municipalities of Nakrekal, Siddipet, Atchampet, Kothur and Jadcherla.
Bypoll was also conducted to five other wards in various civic bodies. Of the nine wards which went to bypoll, election was unanimously declared in favour of MIM in one ward, two wards in favour of TRS and one in favour of an independent candidate as only a single candidate filed nomination. No other party fielded candidates in four wards on the re