Amid tight security, Tirupati Lok Sabha bypoll to be held on Saturday
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Last Updated: Apr 16, 2021, 01:58 PM IST
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Tight security arrangements have been put in place at all the 2,471 polling stations in all seven assembly segments of the parliamentary constituency, a senior government official said.
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There are 17,09,472 electors in this constituency comprising seven assembly segements and spread over Chittoor and Nellore districts.
After a fortnight-long high voltage campaign, bypoll to the Tirupati Lok Sabha Constituency (SC Reserved) will be held on April 17 amid tight security and in line with the COVID-19 protocol.
Tight security arrangements have been put in place at all the 2,471 polling stations in all seven assembly segments of the parliamentary constituency, a senior government official said.
Tirupati LS bypoll: Ruling YSR Congress in high stakes battle with BJP, TDP
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Last Updated: Apr 15, 2021, 02:02 PM IST
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What triggered this was the choice, of the ruling YSR Congress, of a political novice M Gurumurthy as its candidate, whose only credentials were that he accompanied the party chief Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy in his 3,600-km-long padayatra (foot march) in 2017-19 and tended to the latter as a physiotherapist.
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Jagan Seva versus Jana Seva (service to Jagan versus service to people) has been the war cry in the campaign for the by-election to Tirupati Lok Sabha constituency in Andhra Pradesh, where the stakes have become high for all the main parties.