TRS leaders expressed confidence of retaining the Medak Lok Sabha in the by-elections to be held on September 13.
Addresing the TRS Extended meeting at Gajwel here on Sunday, TRS Secretary General and Rajya Sabha K Keshav Rao asked the party cadre to ensure that TRS nominee Kotha Prabhakar Reddy win the Medak by-polls with a thumping majority. He expressed confidence that the Congress and BJP candidates would not even secure their deposits.
Keshav Rao claimed that both the Congress and BJP have lost their significance in Telangana and it would be proved after the Medak by-polls. He criticised the BJP for fielding T Jayaprakash Reddy alias Jagga Reddy as its candidate while ignoring the fact that he opposed the formation of Telangana State.
Irrigation Minister T Harish Rao said that the people of Medak would teach a fitting lesson to the Congress and BJP in the by-polls. He said both the parties had adopted dual stand on the Telangana statehood. While Jagga Reddy openly opposed AP’s bifurcation, Sunitha Lakshma Reddy refused to get funds for the Medak district despite being a minister, he said. (INN)