Telangana: Kamma community leads the pack
Telangana Congress leader Gali Balaji said political parties did not generally prefer candidates from other communities.
Hyderabad: When there are many groups from outside the state, why do Kamma community members get importance in politics?
Every political party prefer Kamma candidates in ‘settler seats’, where non-TS origin voters are in significant numbers, though voters from the Kapu, BC and Brahmin communities are more.
TS Telugu Desam general secretary Amaranth said, “Unlike the Kamma community the other communities are not exposed politically or financially. Persons belonging to the Kamma community take the lead in politics and the others are not that active.”
He said any political party would prefer communities that are active and have high exposure.
Telangana Congress leader Gali Balaji said political parties did not generally prefer candidates from other communities.
Citing an example, he said the Kapu community was present in greater numbers than the others in the Kukatpally Assembly constituency.
Kamma and Velama community voters were few in number. But the seat was won in 2014 by Madhavaram Krishna Rao who belongs to the Velama community, and in 2009 by Jaya Prakash Narayan who is from the Kamma community.
He said if any party fielded a Kapu candidate form Kukatpally, it would definitely win.