Guntur, Feb. 27 -- Voting for the the Member of the Legislative Council (MLC) polls in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh got underway on Thursday, with voting taking place from 8 am to 4 pm. The counting of votes will be done on March 3.

Former minister and MLC candidate for Guntur and Krishna districts, Alapati Rajendra Prasad, cast his vote at the Government Women's Polytechnic College in Gujjanagundla, Guntur, on Thursday.

Speaking to ANI, MLC Prasad said, "The voters across 483 booths in 33 constituencies were turning out in large numbers to support the NDA government. He further added that the survival of the state depended on the NDA's leadership, emphasizing that people had endured hardships under the previous government."

"The peopl...