The power struggle continues within the Telangana Congress and the MLC elections under local authority constituencies, which are due soon, have emerged as another platform where leaders seek to undermine each other’s dominance than win a seat. Trying, the probability of which is almost zero. their insufficient numbers.
In a recent meeting of the party, there was a vigorous debate on fielding party candidates despite a section having low chances of winning, to ensure that they are not out of the mind of the people in the contest. “I am in for a contest even though we have little chance of securing any seats,” a senior leader argued at the meeting. The party leadership was clearly of the view that they did not have enough numbers to win a seat in any district due to the party’s poor representation in the local body elections.
With mounting pressure from a section, TPCC President Revanth Reddy called on former Deputy Chief Minister Damodar Rajanarasimha and former Minister G. Chinna Reddy constituted a committee. Mr Rajanarasimha on Saturday said the issue has been discussed and also how the ruling party snatched away about 50% of its elected representatives from power and money. A report will be submitted in two days to the high command to take a final call.
12 MLCs to complete the tenure
The twelve existing MLCs under local authority constituencies will complete their term on January 3, 2022, with the provisional chairman V. Bhupal Reddy, Patnam Mahendra Reddy, K Damodar Reddy, Shambipur Raju, Kasireddy Narayan Reddy, Kalvakuntala Kavitha, Tera Chinnapa Reddy. , Pochampally Srinivas Reddy, T. Bhanu Prasad, Balasani Lakshminarayana, Poornam Satheesh and Naradasu Lakshmana. All these MLCs represent the ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS).
With its strong numbers, the TRS is all set to retain 12 seats, unless there is massive cross-voting by the elected representatives of the local bodies, which constitute the electorate. Of the 142 Urban Local Bodies (ULBs), 130 are in the TRS. The party has won 449 out of 538 ZPTC, 431 out of 537 MPP, 3,571 out of 5,816 MPTC posts.
The ruling party is well ahead of the others by winning 1,679 out of 2,849 municipal wards and 117 out of 125 municipal president posts. The party also won 333 of the 661 municipal councilor posts and 13 municipal mayor posts across the state.
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