Candidates avoid facing questions from villagers

 Adilabad: Candidates for the assembly polls seem disinclined to face questions from villagers about lack of development, unfulfilled promises and not getting the benefits of much-trumpeted welfare schemes, during the election campaign in the erstwhile Adilabad district.

Candidates of the BJP and BRS are deliberately skirting such questions. People are also raising issues of corruption in the sanctioning of welfare schemes.

Instead, BJP candidate Payal Shankar and Congress candidate Kandi Srinivas Reddy targeted the sitting BRS MLA Jogu Ramanna and held him responsible for the issues plaguing the Adilabad assembly constituency.

In some places, people are complaining to the BRS candidates that they did not get sheep distributed by the government. Some others complained about problems in availing the Asara pensions.

BJP candidates in the Adilabad district faced questions over the BJP’s failure to get the Adilabad unit of Cement Corporation of India (CCI) started.

Congress contestants are relatively in a better position when it comes to facing questions. They have not been in power for the past about 10 years. For any issue, they put the blame on the BRS that ruled TS for two terms and the BJP that ruled the Centre.

There have been many instances of ruling BRS candidates leaving the meeting places in haste as villagers started raising unsolved issues.

The candidates have, however, intensified their election campaign in the Adilabad assembly constituency.  BRS candidate Jogu Ramanna is visiting the interior villages in Adilabad Rural mandal where the Adivasi population is high.

BJP candidate Soyam Bapu Rao, contesting from Boath, took out a massive bike rally in Ichoda and visited the village in Boath constituency. Congress candidate Vannela Ashok is also visiting interior villages and Adivasi gudems in Boath.