Warangal: After registering a thumping victory in the Assembly elections, the Congress is now focusing on the Lok Sabha elections. Several aspirants are in the race to get a Congress ticket to contest the Lok Sabha elections from the erstwhile Warangal district.
Senior Congress leader and former MP Sircilla Rajaiah, Namindla Srinivas, Dommati Sambaiah, and Addanki Dayakar are lobbying hard to get the party ticket.
Rajaiah and Srinivas tried to get a ticket for the Wardhannapet Assembly seat but the party leadership chose retired police officer K.R. Nagaraju. Dommati Sambaiah tried for the Station Ghanpur Assembly ticket but it was allotted to Singarapu Indira.
All four have intensified lobbying with the party leadership. Rajaiah, who was confident that the party leadership would allow him the MP ticket, said that he withdrew from the Assembly elections when the party leadership assured him of allotting the MP ticket. Moreover, he is a local, senior, and loyal party worker.
Namindla Srinivas said that even though he was a local candidate, he sacrificed the Wardhannapet MLA ticket to the K.R. as per instructions by the party leadership and an assurance that he would be given a respectable post. So, the party leadership will definitely allot tickets in the coming Lok Sabha elections, he said.
Dommati Sambaiah who contested the previous Lok Sabha elections is also confident that this time the party will give him the ticket. He said that he can register victory with the sympathy votes and the Congress wave that prevails in the state.
According to party sources, senior Congress leader Addanki Dayakar, a close associate of Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy is also in the race to contest the Warangal parliament constituency. The number of MP ticket aspirants interested in contesting the seat may also increase in the coming days, said party sources.
The seat is reserved for the Scheduled Caste (SC) category and BRS candidate Pasunoori Dayakar is an MP from the Warangal Lok Sabha seat. The Congress has appointed Warangal East MLA and endowment minister Konda Surekha as in-charge for Warangal Lok Sabha constituency.
Out of the seven Assembly seats under the Warangal parliament constituency, the Congress lost Station Ghanpur which was won by the BRS and registered victory in six Assembly constituencies which include Warangal East, Warangal West, Parkal, Wardhannapet, Bhupalpally, and Palakurthy and is determined to win Warangal Lok Sabha seat in the coming Lok Sabha elections.
