A team of the Election Commission (EC) would visit poll-bound Telangana on October 22 to review the poll preparedness of the state. According to an official release, the team during its visit would meet various political parties, besides senior officials of the state government and the police department.
The team would meet the Director General of the Income Tax Department and other senior officials before leaving for the national capital on October 24, it added.
On October 6, the EC had announced the election schedule for five states.
This is the first visit of the EC after it had announced the election schedule for Telangana.
Telangana will go to polls on December 7 and the votes will be counted on December 11.
The assembly polls in Telangana were originally scheduled to be held simultaneously with the Lok Sabha elections next year, but the Assembly was dissolved on September 6 as per a recommendation by the state cabinet.
