Khammam: Even as opposition parties Congress and BJP are dilly-dallying in finalising their candidate lists for the Assembly elections, it is advantage BRS in erstwhileKhammam.
With Telangana going to polls in another 50 days, BRS candidates in the district are 50 days ahead of their yet to be decided opponents in five Assembly constituencies each in Khammam and Kothagudem districts. The BRS candidates had hit the campaign trail as soon as Chief Minister K ChandrashekharRaoannounced the candidates list on August 21. Many have completed their first phase of electioneering by covering a majority of villages in their constituencies.
“Yes we are at an advantageous position against the opposition parties. BRS chief K ChandrashekharRao was the first one to announce the Assembly candidates list. Even as 50 days are over since the BRS declared its candidates; neither Congress nor BJP have done so. With Congress planning a bus yatra in the second week of October, it gives us a lead of another 10 days in terms of electioneering,” KhammamMLA and Transport Minister PuvvadaAjayKumar told Telangana Today.
All the pending development works in Khammam, Kothagudem, Palair, Sathupalli, Bhadrachalam, Wyra, Madhira, Yellandu, Pinapaka and Aswaraopet Assembly constituencies in erstwhileKhammam were grounded prior to the release of the election schedule.
In Khammam constituency, financial assistance under BC Bandhu and Minority Bandhu, sanction orders of GruhaLakshmi Scheme and double bedroom houses were already distributed, besides grounding development works. What is left now is to seek votes, AjayKumar said.
With reference to the party’s opponents in the election, the Minister said he and his party colleagues were fully geared up to fight the election with utmost seriousness to win the elections with a huge majority. “We take our opponents seriously and work hard to win,” he said.
The visits of IT Minister KTRamaRao and Finance Minister T HarishRao recently to the district created a momentum for BRS. Now the BRS cadres are looking towards ChandrashekharRao’s public meetings to be held at Palair on October 27; at Sathupalli and Yellandu on November 1; and later in Khammam and Kothagudem on November 5.
It is planned to organise a series of meetings of key leaders and cadres of BRS to review and coordinate the party’s electioneering beginning on October 14, on which day Khammam constituency will be covered followed by Madhira constituency on October 16 and others in later dates, AjayKumar revealed.
BRS candidates VanamaVenkateswaraRao of Kothagudem, Sandra VenkataVeeraiah of Sathupalli (ST), KandalaUpenderReddy of Palair, B MadanLal of Wyra (ST), B Haripriya of Yellandu (ST), L KamalRaju of Madhira (SC), Dr. TellamVenkatRao of Bhadrachalam (ST) and M NageswaraRao of Aswaraopet are also busy in electioneering.