As many as 87 rebels belonging to the main four political parties – Congress, TDP, BJP and TRS – filed their nominations against the official candidates in 56 Assembly constituencies when nominations closed on Wednesday for the April 30th polling in Telangana region.
As per the records available with the Returning Officers of the 119 Assembly constituencies, the Congress achieved the record of having the maximum number of 33 rebel candidates in 15 constituencies followed by 30 rebels of TDP in 22 segments. The BJP accounted for 14 rebels in 13 constituencies, while TRS has the least number of 10 rebels who filed their papers against the official nominees in 10 constituencies.
Miryalguda, Malkajgiri and Medhcal Assembly constituencies have the maximum number of three rebels each. While the three rebels in Miryalguda belong to the Congress, the rebels in the other two constituencies of Malkajgiri and Medchal belong to Telugu Desam.
The Congress is facing the head ache of two rebel candidates in six constituencies of Huzurabad, Peddapally, Musheerabad, Korutla, Station Ghanpur and Narayanpet. Even Telugu Desam Party is bogged down by two rebels each in six constituencies of L.B. Nagar, Khairatabad, Secunderabad, Pinapaka, Nakrekal and Shadnagar.
What is intriguing is that in eight Assembly constituencies which were allotted to the BJP in the seat sharing alliance, TDP rebels filed their nominations protesting against the decision to “give away” the seats to the saffron brigade. Likewise, BJP rebels filed their nominations against the official TDP candidates in seven Assembly segments despite the fact that the constituencies were left to the TDP as per the alliance entered by the two parties.
The TRS also did not escape the rebel trouble, though the intensity of the problem was not as that of the other three parties. However one rebel TRS candidate remained in each of the 10 Assembly segments.(NSS).
