Telangana GHMC polls: Congress list on January 13, seniors made in-charge

Hyderabad: TPCC president N. Uttam Kumar Reddy on Sunday disclosed that the Congress will release the list of candidates for the various divisions on January 13.

Speaking after releasing the list of leaders drawn from the entire state who will serve as in-charges of the divisions that come under the 24 Assembly segments under GHMC limits, Mr Uttam Kumar Reddy said that the party has opted for a private agency to suggest the best candidates based on their service, popularity and commitment to the Congress ideology.

The party leaders will finalise the candidates after going through the survey reports.

All former Union and state ministers and legislators who have been made in-charges will undertake party campaign in their respective divisions.

Meanwhile, at a party function held in Gandhi Bhavan, information minister from Karnataka Roshan Ali Beig said that Muslims have started distancing themselves from the MIM and this was evident in Karnataka and the Bihar Assembly polls.

He said MIM workers resigning from the party and joining the Congress was a welcome sign. Mr Beig wondered why the MIM failed to question the ruling TRS when it did not implement its promise of 12 per cent reservations to Muslims.

At another programme organised by State Mahila Congress chief Nerella Sarada, Mr Uttam Kumar Reddy asked the party’s women workers to start a door-to-door campaign for the party instead of making rounds of the Gandhi Bhavan.

He said credit for providing 50 per cent reservations to women in all local body polls will go to the Congress.

All India Mahila Congress president Sobha Oza and former Union minister S. Jaipal Reddy, who spoke on the occasion, said that women will teach a lesson to the TRS and the MIM in the GHMC polls.