All set for 7th phase of voting

TELANGANA: Telangana, the new state-to-be, will also elect its first Assembly along with representatives to Parliament when elections will be held in 119 Assembly constituencies and 17 Lok Sabha seats in that part of Andhra Pradesh. TRS, which spearheaded the campaign for Telangana state, and Congress, whose government at the Centre cleared the new state proposal, are said to be involved in a hard-fought contest over credit for the new state. TRS has two Lok Sabha seats while TDP has two from the region. JD (U) and Trinamool Congress have five seats each in the constituencies going to polls on Wednesday, April 30, while CPI (M) has four. The new state will come into being on June 2, its 'appointed' date.