An 11 member team of Election Commission of India led by the Chief Election Commissioner OP Rawat arrived on Monday on a three-day visit.
The team will spend three days to appraise itself of the preparations and arrangements for the state assembly elections scheduled for December 7. Soon after his arrival the CEC Rawat met the Chief Electoral Officer Rajath Kumar and discussed the situation.
The EC team will first hold separate meetings with the representatives of different political parties later this evening. Officials said that two representatives from each political party would meet the team for 20 minutes and make their representations or lodge complaints if they have any.
Later in the evening, they were also scheduled tomeet the state election officials and the nodal officer of the state police to review the arrangements.
On Tuesday, the CEC and others will hold a meeting with the district election officers, district superintendent of police and other officers from all the 31 districts of Telangana and discuss the situation in the districts. The meeting, which will also be attended by the DIGs and IGs, would focus specially on the vulnerable areas including those facing Maoist threat.