Hyderabad: After tasting defeat within the current meeting elections, all three essential contestants, together with sitting MP Arvind Dharmapuri, are attempting their luck within the Nizamabad Lok Sabha constituency.
Arvind, who proved to be an enormous killer by defeating then Chief Minister KC Rao's daughter Okay Kavita in his electoral debut in 2019, is that this time taking up seasoned politicians from the Congress and Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS).
With Kavitha staying away from the competition, the bitter rivalry between her and Arvind is lacking this time in the important thing constituency of North Telangana.
The arrest of the previous MP by ED and CBI within the Delhi Excise Coverage case has dealt a blow to BRS. This has given each BJP and Congress a degree to assault BRS on corruption, however BRS could attempt to achieve sympathy by portraying Kavita as a sufferer of BJP's alleged 'political conspiracy'.
Kavitha's absence seems to have tarnished the competition as she vowed to defeat Arvind from any constituency he contests from.
He claimed that he had performed an essential position within the defeat of Arvind in Koratala meeting constituency within the elections held on November 30, 2023.
BRS retained Koratala as Arvind Kalvakuntla misplaced to Sanjay by a margin of over 10,000 votes.
Koratala is among the seven meeting constituencies underneath Nizamabad parliamentary constituency.
Within the current meeting elections, BRS received three meeting seats, whereas Congress and BJP received two seats every.
The Nizamabad Lok Sabha seat is more likely to see a triangular contest between Arvind, senior Congress chief T Jeevan Reddy and BRS candidate Bajireddy Govardhan.
Curiously, each Jeevan Reddy and Bajireddy Govardhan additionally misplaced the meeting elections from areas falling underneath Nizamabad Lok Sabha constituency.
Jeevan Reddy, a former minister and presently a member of the Telangana Legislative Council, misplaced to Dr M Sanjay Kumar of BRS by a margin of 15,822 votes.
Bajireddy Govardhan misplaced to Congress's R Bhupathi Reddy in Nizamabad Rural constituency by a margin of about 22,000 votes.
Nizamabad was the second Lok Sabha constituency after Adilabad the place the BJP carried out impressively within the current meeting elections.
It wrested the Armoor and Nizamabad city seats from BRS and completed second in Koratala section.
Arvind, who is understood for his aggressive Hindutva stance, is once more relying on the PM Modi issue to retain the seat.
Final month, he had courted controversy by commenting that those that wouldn’t assist the BJP after getting advantages from the schemes applied by the Modi authorities would go to hell.
“You’re getting free meals, free gasoline, good colleges are being arrange. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is taking good care of your well being. He’s sending cash for weddings. He’s giving loans to SHGs. He additionally abolished triple talaq and ensured your self-respect,'' he had stated in a gathering.
The 47-year-old can be highlighting the truth that his age is lower than the political expertise of his rival Jeevan Reddy.
He claims that the Congress chief has finished nothing for the folks of Nizamabad in his 47-year political profession.
The BJP MP is searching for re-election on his “biggest achievement” of bringing the Nationwide Turmeric Board within the state.
This was the principle promise made by Arvind within the 2019 elections and he had given it in writing and even signed it with non-judicial (bond) stamp.
The constituency had come into limelight after 177 farmers jumped into the fray demanding remunerative costs for turmeric and crimson sorghum and organising of a turmeric board, taking the entire variety of candidates to 185.
In a tightly contested election, Arvind, son of former Congress and BRS chief and Rajya Sabha member D. Srinivas, had defeated Kavitha by a margin of over 71,000 votes in 2019.
Kavita had received the seat in 2014 by defeating her nearest rival Madhu Yaskhi Gaur of Congress by 1.67 lakh votes.
After defeat in 2019, Kavita was elected to the Legislative Council from Nizamabad native authorities constituency in October 2020. She was concentrating on Arvind by revolutionary protests for failing to meet his promise to the Turmeric Board.
He had stated, “Arvind was reminded of his promise that he would get the Haldi Board within five days of winning the elections and he failed to get the board in 4.5 years.”
Final 12 months, the bitterness between the 2 leaders reached its peak when Arvind allegedly made some objectionable feedback in opposition to Kavitha, following which his supporters vandalized the MP's residence in Hyderabad.
BRS had stepped up its marketing campaign in opposition to Arvind after the Middle instructed Parliament in March final 12 months that there was no proposal to arrange a turmeric board or another spice-specific board within the nation.
Nevertheless, on October 1, 2023, whereas addressing a public assembly in Mahabubnagar, Prime Minister Narendra Modi introduced that the Nationwide Turmeric Board might be arrange in Telangana to professionally give attention to your complete worth chain of turmeric.
Though there have been many contenders for the Nizamabad seat, the Congress management determined to subject senior chief Jeevan Reddy.
Equally, BRS elected four-time MLA Bajireddy Govardhan.
Jeevan Reddy was first elected to the Andhra Pradesh Meeting on a TDP ticket from Jagtial in 1983 and served as Excise Minister within the NT Rama Rao cupboard.
He joined the Congress in 1984 and was re-elected to the Meeting from Jagtial in 1989, 1996, 1999 and 2004.
He served because the Minister of Roads and Buildings within the YS Rajasekhara Reddy cupboard between 2007 and 2009.
He was elected to the Telangana Meeting from Jagtial in 2014.
After his defeat within the 2018 elections, he contested the Legislative Council elections and was elected from the Karimnagar graduates constituency in 2019.
Jeevan Reddy is contesting the Lok Sabha elections for the third time. He unsuccessfully contested elections from Karimnagar twice. Each instances he misplaced to BRS chief and KC Rao.
Whereas in 2006, Jeevan Reddy misplaced by an enormous margin of greater than two lakh votes, within the by-election in 2008, he narrowed the margin to fifteen,765 votes.
The 73-year-old questioned the sitting MP's failure to arrange a turmeric board regardless of the order issued six months in the past. He additionally alleged that because of the negligence of the NDA authorities, turmeric farmers usually are not getting remunerative costs in recent times.
The Congress chief can be elevating the problem of unemployment and loss to farmers resulting from closure of sugar mills and is promising to reopen them by 2025.
He additionally promised to develop Nizamabad as a wise metropolis by specializing in offering pension to beedi-making girls and rising training, healthcare and employment alternatives.
Bajireddy Govardhan, who staunchly fought the banned Maoists within the early Nineteen Nineties and survived two makes an attempt on his life by them, is a senior BRS chief.
He has the excellence of successful meeting elections as a Congress and BRS candidate from three completely different constituencies. He was first elected to the Meeting in 1999 from Armur on a Congress ticket.
In 2004 he was elected from Banswara. He joined YSRCP after Jagan Mohan Reddy shaped it in 2010. Govardhan joined TRS (now BRS) in 2014 and was elected to the Telangana Meeting from Nizamabad Rural constituency and retained the seat in 2018.
Like BJP candidate Arvind, Govardhan additionally hails from the numerically robust Munnuru Kapu group.
Congress occasion leaders are hoping to garner assist from all communities within the constituency, which has over 15 lakh voters.
He claims that after Congress got here to energy, the general public temper is in favor of the occasion. He’s additionally hoping for assist from Muslims, who represent about 15 p.c of the voters.
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