An election official on duty, Harita Goud, died of a heart attack on Thursday after collapsing in Kadadarakunta village of Kudair mandal in Anantapur district, Andhra Pradesh. She was 46 hours away from an ordinary workday, and she never made it to the hospital alive.

Goud was serving as an APO when she suffered the heart attack and fell to the ground. Fellow staff members and police reacted quickly and began moving her to the Kudair hospital. She died on the way.

Goud was not a full-time poll official by profession. She worked as a teacher in Rayadurgam. Her death came while she was carrying out election responsibilities, and it has left colleagues in shock in a village that had no warning the day would end this way.

Harita Goud collapsed suddenly after suffering a heart attack while performing her duties as APO, and despite being rushed toward hospital by colleagues and police, she died on the way.

Chaos at a booth in Pitlampalli

The death was not the only disruption on the day. At polling centre number 3 in Pitlampalli village, under Kalyanadurgam mandal, also in Anantapur district, officials were forced to stop voting for about an hour.

The trouble started when supporters of the TDP and the YSRCP walked into the polling centre at the same time while voting was underway. A confrontation broke out between the two sides. Election staff were visibly frightened as the argument escalated inside the room.

Officials ordered both groups out and locked the polling centre. Returning officers came to the spot, questioned what had happened, and spoke separately to both sides. But the crowds pushed back into the centre a second time.

Rural CI Gangadhara arrived with his staff and dispersed the crowd. Voting resumed only after voters were lined up in a queue and the centre was brought back under control.

A protest and a scuffle in Nellore

Tension also flared at a government school in Anantasagaram, in Nellore district. Minister Anam Ramanarayana Reddy raised an objection, saying YSRCP candidates were inside the polling centre.

YSRCP leaders hit back immediately. They asked why members of the minister’s own party were there. The exchange quickly turned into a standoff.

Anam Ramanarayana Reddy and former YSRCP MLA Vikram Reddy sat down in protest right outside the polling centre. Pushing and shoving broke out between the two groups. Police stepped in and scattered them.

Why this matters for Andhra Pradesh

Every incident in this report happened inside Andhra Pradesh, and two districts, Anantapur and Nellore, saw trouble on the same day. A government employee lost her life while doing election work, and polling at two separate locations was disrupted by party workers clashing in or around the booths. For voters and staff in the state, the day raised hard questions about how safely polling can be run when tempers rise at the booth level.

What we know, and what we don’t

The report confirms the basic sequence of events: a heart attack, a death on the way to hospital, a halted poll at Pitlampalli, and a protest that ended in a scuffle in Nellore. It does not describe the medical history of Goud, the exact time she collapsed, or any formal response from election authorities beyond the steps officials took on the ground.

Goud leaves behind a family, colleagues who watched her collapse, and a village that now knows its polling day ended in tragedy. The detail that stands out is simple. The heart attack happened while she was serving the election process, and the same day, the process itself came close to breaking down at two different centres.