Congress-TDP: Its all in the hands of Seemandhra Settlers

     Written by : SMTV24x7 | Wed, Aug 01, 2018, 06:05 PM

Congress-TDP: Its all in the hands of Seemandhra Settlers

Hyderabad, Aug 01: The Congress party at any cost doesn't want to lose the happening that would help it pull down the TRS from power in 2019 assembly elections, even it required duplicating an alliance with the Telangana unit of Telugu Desam Party.

Though the Telangana TDP has lost most of its leaders who jumped into the TRS, the party yet has a lot of personnel at the ground level, which has been opposing the ruling party. Moreover, it still has a hold among the Seemandhra immigrants in Telangana, particularly the Kamma community.

These settlers had voted for the TDP in 2014 assembly elections, but shifted to the TRS during the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation polls, due to the good relations between Telangana chief minister KCR and his AP analogue N Chandrababu Naidu.

But now, the relations seem to have choked and the TDP is now trying to deed the same to counter the TRS. The Congress party is now trying to note-in on these contrast between the TRS and the TDP.

The Congress leaders are sending tentacles to the TDP for an alliance and might even offer a few seats to the latter, so as to defeat the TRS. That is why even PCC president N Uttam Kumar Reddy is not ruling out the alliance with the TDP.

Nonetheless, Uttam says it is too untimely to talk about the alliances. The decision on this issue would be taken by Congress president Rahul Gandhi himself, he says.

The Congress is planning to support the Seemandhra settlers, if they contested the next elections either on Congress (or) on the TDP tickets.

"In 2014, the Seemandhra settlers in Hyderabad were angry with Congress party after the bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh in 2014. But now, the things have changed. We are hopeful of winning back their confidence," he said.

If the Congress cannot win in the constituencies dominated by settlers, it will back the TDP candidates, the party sources said.