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Aspiring MLAs nurture new hopes
With clear indications that the Centre would redraw the boundaries of Assembly constituencies before 2019 elections, the incumbent legislators and the leaders aspiring to contest the next elections are drawing their strategies. While the TRS aspirants are jubilant, Telugu Desam fears that the TRS will try to do what it had done during delimitation of GHMC elections in Hyderabad.
Hyderabad: With clear indications that the Centre would redraw the boundaries of Assembly constituencies before 2019 elections, the incumbent legislators and the leaders aspiring to contest the next elections are drawing their strategies. While the TRS aspirants are jubilant, Telugu Desam fears that the TRS will try to do what it had done during delimitation of GHMC elections in Hyderabad.
The 2008 delimitation that dashed the hopes of many leaders across the undivided AP has also brought cheers to the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes as the process dished out more reserved constituencies in the Assembly and Parliament. In case of Warangal, the redrawing of the boundaries for the Assembly constituencies had resulted in decrease in the number of seats from 13 to 12.
But it had given additional reserved seats for SC and ST aspirants. According to sources close to TRS high command, the district is likely to get three additional seats. It’s learnt that one seat in Warangal urban area and two in the rural region are likely to be carved out. Speaking to The Hans India, senior TRS leader Peddi Sudarshan Reddy said: “It’s difficult to say about the names of new constituencies as the delimitation process has to consider several parameters.
As the Act only refers to the increase in the number of Assembly seats, the administration has to ensure that the boundaries of existing Parliamentary constituencies are not disturbed. Apart from this, the authorities have to avoid split of mandals while creating new constituencies”.
Errabelli Dayakar Rao, the then TDP legislator who represented Wardhannapet constituency, had to forego that seat as it was reserved for SCs. With this, he moved to adjacent Palakurthy. Errabelli said: “The then chief minister YS Rajasekhar Reddy, who prevailed over the delimitation committee, succeeded in chopping and changing mandals so that Congress could benefit.
There is an imperative need to rectify those errors when the next delimitation process takes place”. Karimnagar DCC president Katakam Mrityunjayam said: “The district had not seen much change due to the 2008 delimitation process. Some constituencies were deleted and some were added. In the end, there was no change in the number of seats in the district which stands at 13”.
However, it’s hard to predict the names, the district is likely to get three to four new constituencies, he said. In Adilabad district, there is a possibility of Adilabad Rural, Utnoor and Mandamarri becoming new constituencies. Nizamabad district which has nine Assembly seats presently is likely to get one more.
Nizamabad Urban (2.63 lakh) and Rural (2.17 lakh) are the two big constituencies in the district while Banswada (1.70 lakh) is the smallest. It’s believed that there is a possibility of carving out three constituencies from the Urban and Rural seats. Continued on P6
