Cong banks on Jana, TRS and BJP look for strong candidates
Deccan ChronicleHyderabad: After the stunning results in the Dubbaka bye-election and the GHMC elections, the by-elections to the Nagarjuna Sagar Assembly constituency have become crucial for all parties. Each of the three leading parties – the ruling TRS, whose sitting MLA’s demise necessitated the bypoll, the Congress, whose traditional stronghold it has been, and the BJP, whose star is on the ascendency in the state and is trying to firm up its position as the replacement to TRS in the state – is preparing to put in their best efforts to win this seat. For the ruling TRS, which has suffered shocking electoral setbacks at the hands of the BJP in Dubbak assembly bypoll and the GHMC elections, winning the Nagarjuna Sagar bypoll is significant to check the saffron’s party rise. His reputation and credibility got further eroded to some extent with reports of Jana Reddy and his son K. Rahuveer Reddy being in touch with both the TRS and BJP and considering changing parties. Such rumours sounded credible because neither TRS nor BJP have strong candidates to in the constituency to take on a heavyweight leader like Jana Reddy if he contested from Congress.