Shah: Only BJP can take on TRS
BJP chief says Mahakutami no alternative
Bharatiya Janata Party national president Amit Shah said that the Mahakutami — an alliance of the Congress, Telugu Desam, the TJS and the Communist Party of India — can never be an alternative to the Telangana Rashtra Samiti.
“The BJP alone will be an alternative to the TRS in Telangana,” he said.
Sounding the poll bugle at Karimnagar on Wednesday, Mr Shah said that Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhara Rao was afraid of facing Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the elections and that is why he has advanced the Assembly polls.
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Telangana was only possible through the ‘Make in India’ programme of Mr Modi; Congress and others were indulging in ‘Break India’ programme, he said. “The Congress under Rahul Gandhi has not won an election since 2014,” he said and added that the party can only be seen through a microscope.
Women aspirants pin their hopes on the Mahakutami and the BJP to get a fair share in nominations as final lists are being prepared. Telangana Rasthra Samithi (TRS) had announced the first list of candidates a month back with 105 candidates out of 119 constituencies. In the first list, there were only four women candidates even reducing the proportion of serving legislators for a repeat nomination which has become a contentious issue among party workers.
Women were more mature and proactive in perpetuating democratic practices as the voter turnout in 2014 proves that 74.18 per cent of them exercised their franchise as against 74 per cent of men, said K. Balaji, a Research student of the University of Hyderabad said. The proportion of women representatives was steadily declining, he said.
In the dissolved Assembly, there were only nine women representatives. Gongidi Sunitha (Alair),Konda Surekha (Warangal East), Padma Devender Reddy (Medak),Bodige Shoba (Choppadandi), Ajmeer Rekha (Khanapur),and Kova Lakshmi (Aseefabad) belong to the TRS party. Dr Jetty Geetha (Zaeerabad), DK Aruna (Gadwal) and Padmavathi Reddy Nalamada (Kodad) belong to the Indian National Congress. The lone woman in the Telangana Legislative Council was Akila Lalitha, who was from the Congress party.