WARANGAL: Social activist Kota Shyamkumar, hailing from Karimnagar district and contesting as an independent in the Munugode by-election, did his poll campaign in a strange way on Monday. He spent time at a cemetery.
He told the media that he found all the houses locked in villages as the people went to participate in the poll campaigns. “They were lured by political parties with money, liquor and biryani,” he said.
The candidate said he had no such thing to offer. Instead, he did poll campaigning in burial grounds by placing his pamphlets and held placards at a cemetery in Narayanpur in the constituency.
“When the leaders are taking the people in the morning and leaving them back in their homes at night, how can candidates like me meet the voters,” he asked.
Kumar told Deccan Chronicle he wanted to educate the people that “no one will carry anything with them after their death and no one should get attracted to the offerings that the parties are giving them.”
He prayed to the souls of the relatives of Munugode inhabitants to come into their dreams and motivate them to vote for a candidate like him, who will serve them in a “selfless manner, irrespective of considerations of castes and religions, and work for the development of the constituency.”
Kumar had earlier done poll campaigning by dressing like Lord Venkateshwara Swamy and holding placards that said those selling their votes would rue the act later.
