Hyderabad, March 11 -- Cash, sarees, gifts, wine and dine.

A disturbing trend has emerged in the just concluded elections to graduates and teachers' constituencies in Telangana State.

While elections are becoming expensive, a new trend of distribution of cash, sarees, liquor, and other luxuries has emerged in the recent elections for two teacher's constituencies of the MLC elections and one graduate's segment.

These constituencies are where only teachers and graduates respectively are eligible to vote.

In all, 56 candidates contested elections in the Medak-Nizamabad-Adilabad-Karimnagar graduates' constituency and 15 candidates in the teachers' segment. In Warangal-Khammam-Nalgonda teachers' constituency poll, 19 candidates tried their...