Huzurabad voters hold cards close
Deccan ChronicleAmbala village : Who will win, we ask everyone. In continuity of the TRS policy of naming youth leaders to make electoral debuts in politically significant bypolls, president of the party's student wing Gellu Srinivas Yadav has been hoisted as the rival to strongman and four-time local legislator Rajendar. But, in the constituency, it is being dubbed, at least by the BJP — which has historically been a no-show here, except for the 2019 Lok Sabha polls when party state president Bandi Sanjay won the Karimnagar constituency during a euphoric Modi wave coinciding with a considerable anti-TRS mood a mere four months after an exceptional power-retaining win for the TRS in advanced Assembly elections —as an Etala-Chandrashekar Rao faceoff. There are several Muslim voters who join Rajendar "events", marches, bike rallies and walks, carrying the BJP flag and wearing T-shirts and caps featuring him. Harish Rao meets several groups of people from different parts of the town and neighbouring villages, overseeing the joining of yet another group of people from the Congress or the BJP into the pink party.