Hyderabad: While the Congress is stitching together a grand alliance with the Telugu Desam and the CPI to defeat the TRS, the YSRC, the Jana Sena and the CPM are likely to come to the rescue of the ruling party here. In a multi-corner contest, anti-TRS votes will be scattered and this will help the party. The CPM has declined to join the Congress-led alliance and decided to go with the Jana Sena in Telangana state. The Jana Sena has not yet taken a decision on contesting the elections in the state.
Sources said Jana Sena chief Pawan Kalyan would hold a meeting with the party’s political affairs committee on Tuesday or Wednesday to take a decision on contesting in the TS Assembly elections. in the assembly elections.
Mr Kalyan had considered forming an alliance with the CPM, CPI and the Telangana Jana Samiti (TJS) to contest in the TS elections. The CPI and the TJS joined the Congress-led alliance, leaving the Jana Sena to ponder over contesting or not in the TS elections.
The CPM’s Telangana state secretary Tammineni Veerabhadram recently wrote to Mr Kalyan expressing the party’s interest in joining hands with the Jana Sena in Telangana state. If the Jana Sena decides against contesting in TS, the CPM, which has a strong cadre in Khammam, Nalgonda and Warangal, will contest on its own.
On January 1, Mr Kalyan met Mr Chandrasekhar Rao for about an hour. He later praised the KCR government stating that Telangana state had become the first in the country to supply free power round the clock to the agriculture sector. On another occasion Mr Kalyan and IT minister K.T. Rama Rao took selfies and posted them on social media, which created a flutter. In this backdrop, the developments on the CPM-Jana Sena front would be interesting.
In the 2014 elections, the YSRC won three Assembly and a Lok Sabha seat from the state while the CPM won one seat to the Assembly. This time the YSRC is planning to contest from about 25 Assembly seats in Khammam, Warangal and Hyderabad districts.
