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TPCC complains to prez against KCR for engineering defections
Telangana Congress leaders on Monday complained to President Pranab Mukherjee against Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao on defections.
Sukhender Reddy brought to the notice of President that during recently held local body elections to Council in Nalgonda, the TRS MLAs had shown total disrespect for the law and order and grossly abused the power
Hyderabad: Telangana Congress leaders on Monday complained to President Pranab Mukherjee against Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao on defections.
Along with Vivek, Ponnam Prabhakar, Rajgopal Reddy and Balram Naik, Gutha Sukhender Reddy met Pranab at Rashtrapathi Nilayam in Bollarum here and sought his intervention to prevent defections in the State.
Sukhender Reddy brought to the notice of President that during recently held Local Body Elections in Nalgonda, the TRS MLAs had shown total disrespect for the law and order and grossly abused the power by openly attacking women voters right at the polling station and even physically attacked the police on duty.
While Rajgopal Reddy informed President that the ruling TRS party was adopting unethical and illegal methods. For instance, the TRS had won only 138 seats out of 1,104 for MPTC and ZPTC elections in 2014. The Congress had won 546 seats and its alliance partner, the CPI party won 28 seats. However the TRS is encouraging the party defections and openly wooing the other party members into TRS.
He also pointed out that the TRS MLAs were threatening and pressurising other party voters with dire consequences if they failed to vote for their party. Later, they told media that they urged the President to take action to prevent anti-democratic policies of Chief Minister. “KCR is encouraging defections in camp office and secretariat. This is undemocratic and uncalled for”, they said and found fault with the TRS leadership for luring their party leaders for winning the GHMC and MLC elections.
