November 20, 2023 06:21 pm | Updated 06:21 pm IST – NIZAMABAD/KAMAREDDY districts
BJP candidate for Kamareddy Ok. Venkataramana Reddy has been elevating the difficulty of native availability of different contestants – BRS candidate and Chief Minister Ok. Chandrasekhar Rao and Congress candidate and TPCC president A. Revanth Reddy – throughout his election marketing campaign..
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Pushing backward the important thing points confronting the folks, an issue of a unique variety is confronting the contesting candidates, together with president of Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) and Chief Minister Ok. Chandrashekhar Rao and president of Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) A. Revanth Reddy, in erstwhile Nizamabad district.
Locals versus ‘outsiders’ (non-locals) sentiment is slowly however steadily gaining floor in no less than 5 of the 9 Assembly constituencies in previous Nizamabad district, which was bifurcated into Nizamabad and Kamareddy districts. The concern is seen in Yellareddy, Banswada, Nizamabad, Balkonda and Jukkal SC constituencies.
Once elected, will these candidates — referred to as ‘parachute’ leaders — be accessible to the folks is the moot query raised by the voters throughout the district. This has pressured the candidates to go the additional mile to reiterate their dedication to keep put in the constituency.
The concern if it percolates down may trigger critical dent into the fortunes of the contestants. New entrants into politics, who’re making their debut having made profitable careers as entrepreneurs too face the difficulty.
Former ministers and MLAs’ with over three many years of political careers, who’ve shifted to different constituencies throughout the two districts too are going through the warmth.
For the document, Chief Minister Ok. Chandrashekhar Rao, Congress State unit chief Revanth Reddy are in the sphere from Kamareddy Assembly constituency other than Gajwel and Kodangal constituencies respectively.
Similarly is the case with senior Congress chief and former minister Md. Ali Shabbir, now contesting from Nizamabad Urban seat. Ex-MLAs Enugu Ravinder Reddy (Congress) and Yendla Laxminarayana (BJP) each are in the fray from Banswada constituency and pitted once more Speaker Parige Srinivas Reddy. Previously, the 2 leaders had represented Yellareddy and Nizamabad constituencies a number of occasions. BJP candidate from Balkonda Aleti Annapurna too has shifted from Armoor constituency this time.
Congress candidates Madan Mohan Rao (Yellareddy), Laxmikanth Rao (Jukkal) and Muthyala Sunil Reddy (Balkonda) are all profitable businessmen and making an attempt their luck in this election. For Mr. Madan Mohan and Laxmikanth Rao, this will probably be their debut polls whereas Sunil Reddy, who operates luxurious journey buses, is in the fray for the second time. Two-time BRS MLA Bigala Ganesh Gupta, who’s making an attempt for a hat-trick from Nizamabad Urban too is an NRI.
Voters are involved if the leaders could be accessible on a regular basis. Raji Reddy of Ramareddy village in Yellareddy constituency puzzled if these leaders would ever be accessible to them. “How will the locals approach them? We will again be forced to meet the local leaders representing these leaders to address our concerns,” he stated.
BJP candidate from Kamareddy, Katipally Venkatramana Reddy shouldn’t be sparing KCR and Revanth Reddy in his election marketing campaign. “Dear voters, please decide whether you want a local leader, who is available round-the-clock or outsiders. You all can knock my door in the middle of the night. Will you dare to do the same with KCR and Revanth,” Mr. Venkataramana Reddy says wherever he’s campaigning. The tone and tenor of his attraction appear to have caught a chord with the citizens.
Asked in regards to the outsider tag by his opponents in Nizamabad Urban constituency, Md Ali Shabbir shot again. “I am in politics for the last 40 years. As an NSUI and Youth Congress leader I served Nizamabad district. Having become a minister I did everything for the people of the district. Those, who are calling me non-local themselves are outsiders,” he stated stating to BRS MLA Ganesh Gupta and BJP candidate Dhanpal Suryanarayana.
“They hail from Makloor and Ch. Kondur villages, which are not party of Nizamabad Town,” he argued. Dhanpal Suryanarayan hit again claiming that his father had set up a profitable textile store a number of many years in the past in Nizamabad and he had taken the enterprise ahead. “For the last 24 years my charitable trust is rendering service to the people of Nizamabad Town in irrespective of caste and creed. So where is the question of myself being an outsider,” he questioned his critics.
But, leaders from the BRS, Congress and the BJP, who did need to be recognized, preserve that the outsider tag that’s being raised by some leaders won’t have an effect on the functioning of those leaders. “All the elected representatives have sound methods in place to look into the grievances of the locals. They at all times can be found to the constituents each time they go to the constituency. These fees are solely to divert the eye of individuals and search some votes,“ they identified.