CONG. IN TALKS OVER ADILABAD LS CANDIDATE

New names are surfacing in the race for Congress ticket for the Adilabad Lok Sabha seat. The Lambada community is mounting pressure on the party high command for a ticket while BJP MP Soyam Bapu Rao, dropped by the party, is rumoured to be in talks to join the Congress.

The Mahabubabad and Adilabad LS seats are reserved for STS, out of a total of 17 seats in the state.

The Congress is said to be considering all the equations, including the demands from the Adivasi and Lambada communities and the role of non-tribal voters, as also the merits and demerits of rival BJP and BRS candidates before announcing its candidate for the Adilabad LS seat.

The BRS has nominated former MLA Atram Sakku for Adilabad and the BJP Godam Nagesh.

The Congress has announced Balaram Naik for Mahbubabad. Now, Adivasis are demanding that the Congress allocate the Adilabad MP ticket for a candidate from the community. The party high command did not announce the Adilabad candidate though the matter came up for discussion in the election committee meeting.

Meanwhile, panchayat raj minister Dansari Anasuya, who is also in-charge minister for the Adilabad parliament constituency, is holding meetings with party workers at different places to activate the cadre and second-rung leaders.

Elsewhere, Telangana Jana Samiti (TJS) president Prof. Kodandaram visited the Kadam project and inquired with the officials about the status of the project on Sunday. He appealed to the Congress government to help the farmers of Mancherial and Nirmal by undertaking repairs on war footing to the project.