What Covid? TRS local body members partying in camps Narsing Rao withdraws MLC papers for Kavitha
Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao’s daughter K. Kavitha’s certain cakewalk win in the Nizamabad MLC byelection is turning controversial with around 500 elected representatives from rural and urban local bodies of undivided Nizamabad district caught on camera partying in Moinabad on the outskirts of Hyderabad as part of a camp. Videos of the free flow of liquor and their consumption by the participants have gone viral on social media on Saturday.
Reportedly, municipal corporators, councillors, zilla parishad and mandal parishad territorial committee members have been camping in resorts at Shamirpet and Moinabad for the past two days. The byelection for the Nizamabad MLC seat is scheduled for April 7.
Of 824 votes, the TRS has a comfortable majority with 504 votes. In addition, its ally MIM has 28 and a majority of 66 independents
TRS candidate L. Narsing Rao withdrew his nomination for the MLC byelection from the Nizamabad local authority constituency here on Saturday.
may also support the TRS candidate. Congress has 141 and BJP 85 voters respectively.
As a precautionary measure, some TRS MLAs have shifted their respective local body representatives to camps to prevent poaching by Opposition parties. Of the nine Assembly constituencies in the composite Nizamabad district, the voters (elected representatives) have been kept in camps in three to four
Mr Narsing Rao had filed two sets of nomination papers, but he withdrew to pave the way for TRS official candidate and former MP K. Kavitha. Mr Rao is the mandal praja parishad president of Machareddy mandal in
places in and around Hyderabad. Reportedly, women candidates went for camps along with their husbands and children.
Non-availability of elected representatives when preventive measures against coronavirus are underway in villages and towns has turned into a major topic in Nizamabad Municipal Corporation and other municipalities and mandals in Nizamabad and Kamareddy districts.
Kamareddy district and is a founder member of the TRS.
Strongly believing that he would get the ticket, Mr Rao had filed the nomination papers but withdrew following directives from the TRS high command.
Reacting to this at a press conference here on Saturday, Nizamabad MP D. Arvind from BJP said that TRS has a comfortable majority but “because of Kavitha’s insecurity, the voters have been shifted to camps.”
Some elected representatives from Armoor and Nizamabad rural Assembly constituencies have sent selfie videos to their family members with them in clear drunken condition.