The by-election scheduled for November 3 turned essential after sitting Congress legislator Komatireddy Raj Gopal Reddy stop the social gathering and joined the BJP in August. The social gathering is hoping that mobilisation for the yatra will help its efforts to retain the seat. The Bharat Jodo yatris will enter Telangana on October 23, simply 10 days earlier than the bypoll. However, sources within the Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) mentioned a number of state leaders have been sad about being pulled out of the Munugode bypoll battlefront to hitch Rahul Gandhi as he traverses by way of the state for at the very least every week.
Sources within the social gathering mentioned senior state leaders comparable to TPCC president A Revanth Reddy, Nalgonda MP N Uttam Kumar Reddy, and state Congress working president MB Vikramarka had been requested to withdraw from Munugode and be part of Rahul as quickly as he enters Telangana. A number of Congress leaders are sad in regards to the antagonistic impact on the possibilities of the social gathering’s Munugode candidate Palvai Sravanthi Reddy, the daughter of former MLA and ex-Rajya Sabha MP Palvai Govardhan Reddy.
Former minister and ex-Chief of Opposition within the state Legislative Council Mohammed Ali Shabbir mentioned elaborate preparations have been being made to make sure the Bharat Jodo Yatra’s “grand success”. Ali addressed a preparatory assembly on the Pitlam Mandal Centre in Kamareddy district on Sunday to debate the preparations being made for the yatra within the constituencies of Kamareddy and Jukkal the place Rahul Gandhi will likely be acquired. Former minister Sudarshan Reddy, former MP Suresh Shetkar, and Kamareddy district Congress Committee president Kailasa Srinivas Rao have been among the many senior leaders to attend the assembly.
Telangana eagerly awaiting to welcome Rahul ji to it’s soil. https://t.co/MnIkFMIwuo
— Revanth Reddy (@revanth_anumula) October 17, 2022
After the assembly, the Congress leaders inspected all the route from Pitlam to Deglur on the Maharashtra border. Talking on the event, Shabbir mentioned the yatra, which started on September 7, would cowl 69 km in Kamareddy. Shabbir mentioned Rahul Gandhi was utilizing the yatra to lift his voice in opposition to the politics of division, rising unemployment, and issues being confronted by farmers and different weaker sections of society.
Criticising TRS and BJP
Crediting Congress president Sonia Gandhi for turning the 60-year-old dream of Telangana right into a actuality, the previous minister mentioned the yatra was of significance for Telangana. Although the social gathering misplaced energy in Andhra Pradesh because of the bifurcation and couldn’t win elections in Telangana, Sonia Gandhi granted statehood to the state to “cease the youth from committing suicide and to undo the injustices accomplished to the area up to now”, Shabbir added.
The Congress chief mentioned Chief Minister Okay Chandrashekhar Rao didn’t play any vital function within the formation of Telangana and alleged that just about half the ministers within the KCR Cupboard have been traitors to the Telangana motion. “Regardless of being in energy, the TRS (Telangana Rashtra Samithi) is unable to get the required funds from the BJP-led Central authorities. Think about, what might a two-MP social gathering (TRS) might’ve accomplished in getting statehood for the area. It was solely as a result of Sonia Gandhi ji that Telangana acquired the statehood standing,” he mentioned.
The Congress chief mentioned the Bharat Jodo Yatra would spotlight the failures of the TRS authorities and claimed that the ruling social gathering within the state didn’t fulfil any main electoral promise and turned a surplus Telangana right into a debt-ridden state with unhealthy loans of greater than Rs 5 lakh crore.
Shabbir additionally hit out on the Narendra Modi-led authorities on the Centre for “ruining the nation’s economic system”. He identified India’s slide within the International Starvation Index and criticised the “improper financial insurance policies” that had precipitated the rupee to fall to a document low in opposition to the US greenback.