The 119-member Telangana legislative assembly will vote in a single phase on November 30, 2023. The total number of voters in Telangana is more than three crore. Over 17 lakh voters have been added to the voting list in the state. The notification for the Telangana assembly elections was announced on November 3. The last date for submitting nominations of candidates was November 10. The last date of withdrawing candidature will be November 15, while the counting of votes will be on December 3. The southern state of Telangana was created on June 2, 2014, after a protracted fight for statehood. Telangana was part of Hyderabad's princely kingdom under Nizam rule until India's Independence in 1947, and it has a rich historical and cultural legacy. People from the Telangana area first started demanding a separate Telangana state in the 1950s when they felt left out of the merged Andhra Pradesh state due to the dominance of the Andhra region. The late 1960s and early 1970s saw a rise in the Telangana movement. Protests, agitations, and political demands for a separate Telangana were its defining characteristics. The central government passed the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2014, after years of political negotiations and public pressure. The act created Telangana as a separate state on June 2, 2014 with Hyderabad as its capital. The first assembly election for Telangana was held in April 2014, just a few months before the state was officially bifurcated. The Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) led by K Chandrashekar Rao (KCR) won a decisive majority and KCR became the first chief minister of Telangana. In the 2018 election, the TRS retained power, with KCR re-electing as the chief minister. The party maintained a strong position in the assembly, winning most of the seats in both the 2014 and 2018 elections. The tenure of Telangana legislative assembly is scheduled to end on January 16, 2024.