Hyderabad: TPCC official spokesperson G. Niranjan on Wednesday asked the state election commission as to on which basis it allowed Andhra Pradesh Rajya Sabha MP and ruling TRS party leader K. Keshava Rao to cast his vote in the capacity of an ex-officio member of Tukkuguda municipality. He told the commission that the Rajya Sabha Chairman M. Venkaiah Naidu had declared that Keshava Rao was an MP of the house from Andhra Pradesh.
Speaking to media persons, he said that their party MP KVP Ramachandra Rao had taken permission from the election commission to cast his vote at Nereducharla municipality. Targeting the state election commission, he alleged that the commission had included the name of the ruling TRS party MLC S. Subash Reddy after the issuance of the election notification to elect the municipal chairperson. He said that the name of Subash Reddy was not in the list issued by the commission before the release of the election notification. He made it clear that the state election commissioner V. Nagi Reddy should take up the responsibility for committing such a grave irregularity and resign from his post.
Commenting on the cooperative sector elections in the state, he alleged that that commission concerned had removed the votes of 20 lakh voters. He said that the removal of the voter’s names would reflect the poor status of the farmers of the state. He said that the state government had not given the promised Rs.1 lakh crop loan waiver to the farmers so far. He alleged that the ruling party leaders had once again begun to induce the farmers to win in the cooperative sector elections. Commenting on the Hyderabad Metro Rail project, he said that the credit for the launch of the metro rail project goes to the Congress party. He said that the then UPA government had sanctioned Rs.5,000 crore for the project in the year 2005 and added that the then chief minister of the state YS Rajasekhar Reddy laid the foundation stone for the project. He alleged that the project was delayed due to the objections raised by the chief minister KCR over the laying of the project in sultan bazaar, the old city and public garden area near state assembly. He asked the state government as to how it would extend the project to the old city. He demanded the CM to throw clarity on the issue.
