Cong seeks EC action against Kavitha

The Congress on Friday demanded that the Election Commission take stern action against TRS leaders, including party candidate K. Kavitha, for their alleged involvement in horse-trading of MPTCs, ZPTCs, municipal councillors and corporators, to win the Legislative Council byelection from the Nizambabad local bodies quota.

“The ruling party is brazenly indulging in violation of code of conduct as the contesting candidate from the TRS is Kavitha Kalvakuntla, daughter of the Chief Minister. Therefore, they hatched a conspiracy to win these elections by hook or crook and hence resorted to illegal means of violating the code of conduct,” TPCC working president A. Revanth Reddy, former minister Mohammed Ali Shabbir, Congress candidate V. Subhash Reddy and Ramareddy ZPTC N.

Mohan Reddy alleged in their complaint to Chief Electoral Officer Dr Shashank Goel at his office here on Friday.

Speaking to the media later, Shabbir Ali said that ministers, especially Vemula Prashanth Reddy, Member of parliament B.B. Patil, government whip G. Govardhan and MLAs from Nizamabad and Kamareddy districts had been openly violating the model of code of conduct without fear from the election authorities.

Shabbir Ali said that the party submitted the complete list of MPTCs, ZPTCs, municipal councillors and corporators who were forcibly made to defect to the TRS.

He said that the behaviour of the TRS clearly shows that the MLC election was not free and fair and urged to take immediate action.

The CEO has assured that he would direct the Nizamabad collector, who is also the returning officer, to submit a report and would take action based on his finding.