VIJAYAWADA: The state is all set for the MLC elections scheduled to be held on Friday. The election will be witnessed in the seven districts — Srikakulam, Vizianagaram and Visakhapantam, East Godavari and West Godavari, Krishna and Guntur districts.Krishna and Guntur districts are witnessing MLC election for the graduates constituency, as incumbent Boddu Nageswara Rao is retiring at the end of this month. Similarly, the two Godavari districts are also holding the election for the graduates MLC constituency, as K Ravikiran Varm is retiring. The three north coastal districts are also going for elections on Friday, to elect MLC under teachers’ constituency quota, as incumbent Gade Srinivasulu Naidu will retire on March 30.This time, political parties have dropped out of this elections as they are busy with the upcoming general elections. The parties could not field their candidates and did not even take out time to back any candidate. It is only the teachers’ unions that are fighting this election, where graduates are scheduled to vote for two MLCs and one MLC for is the teachers.A total of 19,593 teachers are scheduled to exercise their vote to elect their representative from North coastal districts for MLC. In the graduates’ constituency for Godavari district, 29,0780 voters and in Krishna-Guntur, 24,4635 voters are scheduled to exercise their vote on the day.Srikakulam – 5691 – 39 polling stationsVizianagaram – 5208 – 36 polling stationsVisakhapatnam – 8694 – 48 polling stationsGraduate voters in Godavari distsEast Godavari – 170913 voters – 193 polling stationsWest Godavari – 119867 voters – 139 polling stationsGraduate voters in Krishna-GunturKrishna – 105037 voters – 153 polling stationsGuntur – 139598 voters – 209 polling stations

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