Warangal: All 10 incumbent BRS legislators who lost the recent Assembly elections are facing the heat from all over in erstwhile Warangal district. While the BRS leaders charged that the MLAs had lost because of their irresponsible attitude when in power, the locals rejected them for their alleged involvement with the land and sand mafia.
The drubbing of BRS was so complete that it lost 10 of the 12 seats in what was perceived as its citadel, Warangal. Incidentally, the two seats it won were the constituencies in which the BRS leadership replaced the MLAs, Jangaon and Station Ghanpur.
Incidentally, when some leaders expressed their resentment at the re-nomination of MLAs, BRS chief K. Chandrashekar Rao did not pay any heed.
MLC Thakkalapally Ravinder and other leaders from the Mahbubabad seat claimed that they had urged the party leadership against fielding MLA Shankar Naik as he was encouraging his followers to indulge in illegal activities
In Parkal, local BRS leaders were disgruntled with former MLA Challa Dharma Reddy as he was ignoring activists who had played a key role in the statehood movement. Moreover, Dharma Reddy gave importance to his followers from the TD, they alleged.
BRS leaders from Wardhannapet constituency alleged that they had informed Errabelli Dayakar Rao and Boinapally Vinod Kumar that then MLA Aroori Ramesh was heavily into land grabbing and illegal transport of sand.
In Dornakal, then MLA D.S. Redya Naik faced the heat from people who alleged that he had not taken any initiative to get welfare schemes to their villages. Despite being a six-time MLA, there has been no development in the constituency, they added.
Meanwhile, BRS corporators in Greater Warangal Municipal Corporation (GWMC) alleged that the party leadership should have replaced sitting MLA Nannapuneni Narendar as he was a land grabber. It is not surprising that he lost the elections, they added.
