TRS leaders from Khammam and Palair join Congress party

HYDERABAD: In a jolt to the TRS ahead of the April 30 municipal elections, the ruling party’s sitting corporator K Saritha, other local leaders and cadres from various other wards in Khammam municipal corporation, joined the Congress party in the presence of its legislature party leader Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka on Saturday.
At a programme held in Gandhi Bhavan in Hyderabad, TRS leader from Palair Assembly constituency Madhavi Reddy along with her followers joined the Congress in the presence of Pradesh Congress Party president N Uttam Kumar Reddy and the other senior leaders.
Uttam said the elections to the urban local bodies are being held in the state with political malice. Chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao has got the State Election Commission to go for the polls of municipal corporations and municipalities fearing an adverse outcome in the Nagarjuna Sagar bypoll, he alleged.
“The chief minister wanted that the municipal elections process is completed before the announcement of the result of Nagarjuna Sagar constituency on May 2,” he said.
He said the ruling TRS is scared of losing the Nagarjuna Sagar bypoll and it do not want it to adversely affect the outcome of ULB elections.
“Do we need elections in this time when Covid-19 cases are rising steeply in the state? Every day lakhs of cases are being reported and thousands of patients are running around hospitals for treatment in the country,” he said and added it was unfortunate that even the courts have not taken notice of the situation.