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More than 100 candidates, including sugarcane farmers, in Telangana have filed nominations against Chief Minister and Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) supremo K Chandrashekar Rao or KCR in the Gajwel Assembly constituency, from where the CM is seeking election for the third consecutive time.
Also, in Kamareddy, the second seat KCR is contesting, over 100 candidates, mostly Independents, have filed nominations against KCR.
On November 9, the last date for filing nominations for the November 30 Assembly elections, KCR along with over 100 Independents filed their papers in the Gajwel seat. A total of 154 candidates have filed nominations now from Gajwel.
Among the 154 candidates are sugarcane farmers from Muthyampet, who are demanding the sugar factory, popularly known as Nizam Deccan Sugars, be restarted in the Nizamabad district. Others who filed nominations in Gajwel include those protesting on behalf of jobless youth and against the government’s failure to conduct state civil services exams, which have been mired in controversy over delays and paper leaks.
Some of the Gajwel “protest candidates” are also calling for government jobs and other services to be given to families of those who died during the movement for the Telangana statehood.
KCR won the Gajwel seat in the 2014 and 2018 Assembly polls. In 2014, he won with 44.06% of the vote share with a 19,391 vote margin. In 2018, he polled 1.25 lakh votes or 60.45% of the vote share, defeating his nearest rival by more than 58,000 votes. This time, KCR will take on the BJP’s Etela Rajender, a former BRS member and the sitting Huzurabad MLA, and the Congress’s Thoomkunta Narsa Reddy.
In Kamareddy, where KCR is contesting for the first time, 102 candidates have filed nominations. Many of those who filed their papers on November 9 are members of the Kamareddy Farmers’ Joint Action Committee (JAC) who are angry over a development master plan of the Kamareddy municipality, under which many farmers would have lost their land. The draft plan, however, has already been scrapped by the municipality and the Municipal Administration and Urban Development department.
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However, at least a hundred farmers in the JAC said last month they will contest against the CM to convey their opposition to any future development plans that may result in such losses of farmers’ land.
KCR’s primary rival in Kamareddy is Revanth Reddy, the Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) chief who is also contesting from Kodangal. Malkajgiri MP Reddy is a former Telugu Desam Party (TDP) leader.
The BJP has fielded K Venkata Ramana Reddy in Kamareddy. The BRS won the seat comfortably in 2014 but faced a stiff challenge from the Congress’s Mohammed Shabbir Ali in 2018.
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