Telangana Polls: Komatireddy switches again to Congress from BJP, after forcing India’s costliest election
Telangana Assembly Poll News: Komatireddy Raj Gopal Reddy, who has give up Congress in 2022 to hitch Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP), has introduced that he’ll return to Congress forward of the essential Telangana polls. While this comes as a setback for the BJP, additionally it is noteworthy that Komatireddy had unsuccessfully contested on the saffron occasion ticket in Munugode meeting by-poll final 12 months.
In a put up on X, Reddy mentioned, “As per the opinion of my followers and supporters, I decided to join the Congress party hoping that I have the blessings of all my supporters.”
Komatireddy‘s assertion comes shortly after his identify was conspicuously absent from the BJP’s preliminary checklist of candidates. Rajagopal Reddy had received Munugode in 2018 on a Congress ticket. Later in 2022, he give up Congress and resigned as MLA solely to hitch the BJP.
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The former Congress legislator left the Congress in August final 12 months makng headlines. He had contested within the by-poll in October, nevertheless, he misplaced to BRS candidate Okay Prabhakar Reddy by a margin of 10,309 votes.
Komatireddy has mentioned that the rationale for his fixed back-and-forth between Congress and BJP is that he goals to “trounce” the Okay Chandrashekar Rao authorities in Telangana. Reddy additionally mentioned that the “people’s mood is in favour of the Congress”.
A noteworthy issue on this fixed alternating by Komatireddy Raj Gopal Reddy is that, he had enforced one of the crucial costly election course of in India, when he left Congress and thereby the Munogode serat vacant.
The Munugode election in November 2022 is taken into account to be one of the crucial costly polls within the nation’s historical past owing to the events’ spending spree to woo voters, NDTV reviews.
According to ballot officers, money value ₹ 8 crore and 5,000 litres of liquor have been seized within the run-up to the election. The bypoll was additionally in information for being the ‘most-watched’ election within the nation — 48 CCTV cameras saved an eye fixed on the polling course of that was webcast throughout 298 police stations, the report provides.
Reddy’s brother Komatireddy Venkat Reddy is a Congress MP, representing Bhuvanagiri in Parliament.
The Election Commission of India (ECI) on October 9 introduced that the Telangana Assembly polls are scheduled to be held on November 30. The counting of votes shall be carried out on December 3.
Telangana is ready to witness a triangular contest between the BJP, the ruling Bharat Rashtra Samithi, and the Congress within the upcoming meeting election.
In the earlier Assembly election held in 2018, BRS managed to win 88 seats out of 119 and had a dominant vote share of 47.4 per cent. Congress got here in a distant second with 19 seats. Its vote share was 28.7 per cent.
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Updated: 25 Oct 2023, 08:43 PM IST