TRS wins all : Empty coffers to greet winners after taking over charge

Hyderabad: Completing its winning spree in the rural local body elections, the TRS has bagged all the Zilla Parishad chairperson and vice chairperson posts to which election has been held on Saturday.

Nearly 446 Zilla Parishad Territorial Constituencies members of TRS have elected 32 Zilla Parishad chairperson and vice chairpersons. The returning officers conducted the election process which has been held in indirect method. The ZPTCs would elect two of them as chairperson and vice chairperson.

According to the information provided by the State Election Commission, Janardhan Rathod has been elected as chairperson of Adilabad ZP, Kova Laxmi has been elected as chairperson of Asifabad, Bhagya Laxmi Nallala – Mancherial, Koripelly Vijaya Laxmi – Nirmal, Dava Vasantha –Jagtial, Kanumalla Vijaya – Karimnagar, Putta Madhukar – Peddapalli, Aruna Nyalakonda –Sircilla, Kankaiah Kora – Kothagudem, Lingala Kamal Raju –Khammam, Saritha – Gadwal, Salguti Swarnalatha – Mahbubnagar, P Padmavathi – Nagarkurnool, Rakasi Loknath Reddy –Wanaparthy, K Vanajamma – Narayanpet, and Ryakala Hemalatha –Medak have been elected.

Similarly Patlolla Manjusree has been elected as chairperson of Sangareddy ZP, Veleti Roja Rani –Siddipet, Dapedar Shobha – Kamareddy, Dadannagari Vital Rao –Nizamabad, Banda Narender Reddy –Nalgonda, Gujja Deepika –Suryapet, Alimineti Sandeep Reddy – Bhongiri, Mallipeddi Sharathchandra Reddy - Medchal Malkajgiri, T Anitha Harinath Reddy- Ranga Reddy, Patnam Sunitha –Vikarabad, Pagala Sampath Reddy – Jangaon, Jakku Sriharshini – Bhupalpally, Angoth Bindu – Mahabubabad, Gandra Jyothi - Warangal Rural, Sudheer Kumar Marapally - Warangal Urban, Jagadeeshwar Kusuma - Mulugu are elected as chairpersons.

As far as vice chairpersons are concerned Are Rajanna has been elected as VC of Adilabad ZP, whereas for Asifabad - Koneru Krishna Rao, Mancherial - Thongala Satyanarayana, Nirmal - Bashetty Sagara, Jagtial - Voddineni Haricharan Rao, Karimnagar - Perala Gopal Rao, Peddapalli - Mandiga Renuka, Sircilla - Siddam Venu, Kothagudem - Kancharla Chandra Sekher Rao, Khammam - Marikanti Dhana Laxmi, Gadwal – Sarojamma, Mahabubnagar - Gollapally Yadaiah, Nagarkurnool - T Balaji Singh, Wanaparthy - G Vaman Goud, Narayanpet – Surekha, Medak - M Lavanya Reddy, Sangareddy - Kunchala Prabhakar, Siddipet - Raireddy Raja Reddy, Kamareddy - Pariki Prem Kumar, Nizamabad - Manakala Rajitha, Nalgonda - Erigi Peddaiah, Suryapet - Gopagani Venkata Narayana, Bhongiri - Dhanavath Beeku, Medchal Malkajgiri – Venkatesh, Ranga Reddy – E Ganesh, Vikarabad - Baindla Vijaya Kumar, Jangaon - Giraboina Bhagya Laxmi, Bhupalpally - Kallepu Shobha, Mahabubabad - Nukala Venkateswara Reddy, Warangal Rural - Akula Srinivas, Warangal Urban Gajjelli Sree Ramulu, Mulugu - Bade Nagajyothi has been elected as VCs of ZPs.

However, when they take up the reins of their respective ZPs, in July first week, empty coffers would greet them. Neither the Centre nor the State government has any provision to give funds to them in this financial year.

The funds to be granted by the Centre through the Finance Commission would go directly to the Gram Panchayats. Though the state government established its own Finance Commission, it is yet to give its recommendations.

The state government has not been taking the Backward Regions Grant Fund from the Centre stating that Telangana was rich state which should have gone to the ZPs and MPPs. With this there is no way for the ZPs to get funds.

The state government has promised funds to the ZPs and MPPs, but it has to allocate them in the budget. The state budget session may be held in August and till then, they have to function with available funds.