INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
HYDERABAD: TRS president and Chief Minister K
Chandrashekar Rao has actually firmed up his choice to field a regional prospect from Backward Classes, coming from the Yadava community,
for the approaching byelection to the Nagarjunasagar Assembly constituency, according to TRS sources.Rao is learnt to have actually taken
this decision ostensibly not to rely on any 'sympathy element', which stopped working to operate in the Dubbak Assembly by-election last
This implies that Nomula Bharat, boy of Nagarjunasagar MLA Nomula Narasimhaiah, will not get the ticket as was extensively speculated
earlier as Bharath comes from Palem village of Nakrekal Mandal in Nalgonda district
Narasimhaiah's death has demanded the by-poll
Chandrashekar Rao apparently ensured Bharat of a chosen post soon.The Chief Minister is learnt to have actually considered three local
candidates from the Yadava neighborhood: Peddaboyina Srinivas Yadav (Tripuraram mandal), Mannem Ranjith Yadav and Katteboyina Guravaiah
Yadav (Nidamanuru mandal)
Based on multiple survey reports, he has zeroed in on Guravaiah Yadav, son-in-law of former MLA Rammurthy Yadav and a close relative of the
party's Rajya Sabha member Badugula Lingaiah Yadav.An official statement on Guravaiah's candidature is likely to be made immediately after
the Election Commission reveals the schedule for the bypoll.The TRS chief offered a ticket to Solipeta Sujatha, widow of Solipeta Ramalinga
Reddy in Dubbak, depending on the 'compassion element'
The BJP defeated the TRS by projecting itself as the primary opposition to the TRS in the state
In this background, Rao is being extra careful in the selection of the Nagarjunasagar prospect where the Congress has decided to field its
Jana Reddy, who has won 7 times from this seat however lost to Narasimhaiah in 2018
Rao commissioned multiple surveys with different agencies to get a feel of the pulse of the citizens
TRS sources say that all the survey reports suggested that a lot of voters preferred a 'local' prospect from the Yadava community which has
a major chunk of voters in the Nagarjunasagar segment.The studies explained that the neighborhood had actually sacrificed the seat to
Narasimhaiah, a non-local, in the 2018 Assembly elections appreciating his large political profession and his 'pro-poor attitude' but they
are not eager to support his child Bharat, a political newbie
In spite of the fact that TRS leaders from Reddy neighborhood like Gutta Sukhender Reddy, Tera Chinnapa Reddy, Koti Reddy are vying for the
party ticket, Chandrashekar Rao is found out to have favoured a Yadav prospect.
