TRS win will help one family: Congress

Hyderabad: The Huzurnagar byelection is gradually heating up, with comments and counters by the leading contenders — the TRS and the Congress.

TRS working president and minister K.T. Rama Rao had said on Wednesday, “If TRS wins in Huzurnagar, it will benefit the people. If the Congress wins, it will only benefit TPCC president N. Uttam Kumar Reddy.”

In their reply, Congress leaders said democracy would benefit if the Congress won the bypoll, but only “one family” — a reference to the Kalvakuntlas, the first family of the TRS —  would benefit if the ruling party won.

TPCC vice-president Mallu Ravi, speaking to mediapersons here, said that it was ridiculous for the TRS to say that Mr Rama Rao would develop Huzurnagar if the party won the bypoll. Had not the people already elected the TRS to govern and develop the state, he asked.

Mr Ravi said the people should make a statement against dictatorship and save democracy by defeating the TRS.

Former MLC Ramulu Naik said the byelection was a fight between money power and people’s power. He asked by TRS leaders why, if they were confident of winning the bypoll, were deputing one minister for each mandal and one MLA for each village.

TPCC working president J. Kusuma Kumar alleged that the TRS was misusing power. He said the TRS candidate would represent a handful of elites while the Congress would take the voice of the people to the Assembly.