Adilabad: Aspirants for MP tickets are making a beeline, highlighting their credentials before ministers and senior Congress leaders visit the district and attend various programmes.
They have approached AICC secretaries and working president Mahesh Kumar Goud as also Panchayat Raj and district in-charge minister Seethakka. Aspirants for the nominated posts are also meeting these senior leaders.
The Adilabad MP seat is reserved for STs and there is huge competition for the ticket given the success of the Congress party in the assembly polls.
There is also a strong line-up from the BJP for the MP ticket since BJP won four seats -- Adilabad, Mudhole, Nirmal, and Sirpur (T) -- and secured second place in Mancherial and Boath, and third place in Khanapur in the recent assembly elections.
Adilabad MP Soyam Bapurao, who contested from Boath assembly constituency this time, tasted defeat but has emerged as a strong contender for the MP ticket. Rathod Ramesh, who lost the assembly elections in Khanapur, is also eying the MP ticket.
The BRS leadership is also in the process of selecting its candidate for the Adilabad MP seat. Former MLA Tram Sakku and former Adilabab MP Godam Nagesh are keen on contesting the MP polls.
Rumours spread, meanwhile, that a senior BRS leader holding a top position in the local bodies is likely to join the Congress. ADCCB chairman Addi Bhoja Reddy, who recently resigned from the BRS, is likely to join the Congress.
Congress candidates Shyam Naik and Ade Gajender, who lost the elections from Asifabad and Boath, and senior Congress leader Naresh Jadhav are also aspiring for party tickets to contest the Lok Sabha elections.
Former MLA Rekha Naik, who joined the Congress before the assembly elections, is also interested in an MP ticket. AICC Adivasi cell national coordinator Kotnak Tirupathi is also lobbying for the party ticket to contest the Adilabad MP seat.
Many officials working in central government services are also lobbying for the MP tickets in Congress, BRS, and BJP.
Congress leader Mallesh from Boath said the party may choose a loyalist as its candidate for the Lok Sabha poll. Some ticket aspirants even mobilized the public for this week’s Nagpur meeting, to enter into the good books of the party leadership.
