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Danam draws ire of city Cong leaders
The efforts of Greater Hyderabad Congress Committee (GHCC) president Danam Nagender to serve an ultimatum to the party central leadership that he be given a free hand in regard to GHMC elections and choosing the candidates backfired as it invited the ire of city leaders.
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Hyderabad: The efforts of Greater Hyderabad Congress Committee (GHCC) president Danam Nagender to serve an ultimatum to the party central leadership that he be given a free hand in regard to GHMC elections and choosing the candidates backfired as it invited the ire of city leaders.
During the nearly two-hour long meeting with Digvijay Singh, Nagender expressed his dislike for dividing the GHMC area into Hyderabad and Ranga Reddy districts, citing lack of coordination between 100 core wards and 50 other wards on the outskirts.
Danam insisted that a ‘single committee’ be formed and kept under his control for assured results. He said this was the practice in other parties including the TRS. Dividing the area into Hyderabad and Ranga Reddy districts would harm the party interests and winning chances he told Digvijay Singh.
However, those who were from Ranga Reddy district did not like his idea and wished the national leadership to maintain status quo, where 50 Wards would have a different leadership during the elections. They also reportedly told the AICC general secretary that there were speculations that Danam was in close contact with TRS and may even switch loyalties. Allowing Danam to have control over selection of 150 candidates would result in groupism and could lead to serious trouble for the party, they told Digvijay Singh.
Leaders from Core City, demanded Digvijay Singh to provide them a chance to choose candidates from their respective Assembly constituencies. It is learnt that Digvijay Singh asked Danam to show examples as to where the decision of selection of candidates had gone wrong in the decentralised system of having Hyderabad and Ranga Reddy district and why the entire power to select 150 candidates be wrested with him.
It is further learnt that Digvijay Singh chided Danam and told him to maintain distance from TRS leaders, particularly Minister Talasani Srinivas Yadav. Nagender told the AICC general secretary that he never thought of joining TRS and that it was a malicious campaign by his opponents.
Even senior party leader Marri Shashidhar Reddy is said to have told Digvijay Singh that Danam had maintained silence when the TRS government had deleted large number of names from the voters’ list. The AICC general secretary is said to have sought an explanation from Nagender over this issue also.
The Congress leaders submitted a long list of complaints against Nagender. According to sources, the Congress leaders accused Nagender of deliberately weakening the Congress party in the city in view of forthcoming GHMC elections. Former MLA Mary Ravindranath reportedly complained of Nagender's proximity with TRS ministers T. Padma Rao and Talasani Srinivas Yadav.
