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Tough task on hand for Congress
Congress has a tough task on hand ahead of the elections to municipalities and municipal corporations, likely to be held in the last week of this month or in the first week of August.
Hyderabad: Congress has a tough task on hand ahead of the elections to municipalities and municipal corporations, likely to be held in the last week of this month or in the first week of August.
The State Election Commission has begun preparing groundwork to hold the elections. The government has completed the delimitation exercise and reservation process.
Tough task is awaiting the Congress party in the elections against the backdrop of series of reversals it suffered in the elections to the Assembly, Lok Sabha, Gram Panchayats, ZP and MPPs.
The Congress could secure between 27 and 30 per cent votes in all these elections and won seats in proportion to percentage of votes. It has won 19 seats in Assembly, three in Lok Sabha polls, 30 per cent of MPTCs and 8 per cent of the ZPTCs.
In the municipal polls, as many as 76.09 lakh urban voters are eligible to elect 3,385 ward members and corporators, who, in turn, will choose one of them as chairpersons or mayors for 132 municipalities and six municipal corporations.
The Congress is expecting that there will be a big turnaround in the municipal elections as it feels that the voters are vexed with the ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi. They have been expecting that Bharatiya Janata Party also has emerged as a strong contender. The Grand Old Party is depending more on the local cadre and leaders for the success of its candidates.
Speaking to The Hans India, member of the TPCC on municipal polls and secretary of All India Congress Committee Vamsichand Reddy said the party was prepared to face the polls.
He said the committee formed by the TPCC has been coordinating with the presidents of the District Congress Committee, Town Congress Committees, MLAs, former MLAs, contestants of the Assembly elections and other leaders.
He said the Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee office- bearers meeting which was held at Nagarjuna Sagar recently had instructed the committee to work for the victory of the party in the municipal polls and work in coordination.
Vamsi said that the star campaigners of the party selected for the Lok Sabha and Assembly polls would be roped in for the campaign in the municipalities.
He said that the campaign would commence as soon as the schedule of the polls is announced. The Congress has decided to put the onus of ensuring the win of the party on the local leaders.
The TPCC would confine itself to coordination activity. The DCCs, Town Committees, local MLA and contested candidates would select the candidates for the wards.
The local leaders have been told to mobilise resources for the contest in the municipal polls. The candidates who would be selected for the contest have to bear the poll expenditure and have to mobiles the workers.
