Jubilee Hills bypoll battle between development and anarchy, says KTR

KTR described the Jubilee Hills by-election as a fight between a decade of BRS development and two years of Congress misrule. BRS candidate Maganti Sunitha filed her nomination, seeking to continue her late husband’s work for the constituency.

Hyderabad: BRS working president KT Rama Rao termed the upcoming Jubilee Hills Assembly by-election a battle between a decade of development and two years of tyranny, referring to the BRS and the Congress rule respectively. Urging voters to deliver a decisive verdict against the Congress government, he said that would compel it to fulfill electoral promises being evaded for the last two years.

Addressing mediapersons ahead of BRS candidate Maganti Sunitha Gopinath’s nomination, Rama Rao said the bypoll was not a fight between individuals, but between transparent governance and corrupt administration, between a pro-farmer rule of the BRS and a vultures’ regime of the Congress. He called the election the first step of the comeback of the BRS and the beginning of former Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao’s return to power in Telangana.

Necessitated by the untimely demise of sitting MLA Maganti Gopinath, the by-election has seen his wife Maganti Sunitha nominated by BRS.

“Gopinath served Jubilee Hills tirelessly for three terms, strengthening both the constituency and the party in Hyderabad,” he said. Accordingly, Chandrashekhar Rao asked the party leaders to stand with Gopinath’s family and campaign on behalf of Sunitha.

Rama Rao said around 1.67 crore women deprived of the Congress’s promised Rs 2,500 monthly aid, senior citizens denied Rs 4,000 Aasara pensions, unemployed youth awaiting jobs, and auto drivers, slum dwellers, and beneficiaries of BRS’ initiatives like Basthi Dawakhanas, free drinking water, and KCR Kits, were all looking to BRS for relief.

“Betrayed by the Congress’s false promises, BCs and minorities are ready to teach it a lesson,” he said.

Ahead of filing her nominations, Sunitha along with her children and party senior leaders performed the customary puja at Peddamma Thalli temple. Apart from Rama Rao, senior leaders Talasani Srinivas Yadav, T Padma Rao Goud, Ravula Sridhar Reddy, P Vishnuvardhan Reddy, and several others accompanied her to Shaikpet MRO office where she filed two sets of nominations.