Speaker sans trappings of power
As Speaker of the Legislative Assembly S. Madhusudhana Chary would visit this town often, travelling in a 10-car convoy with police pilot and escort and the pilot car with a special siren blaring to clear the people. People lined up on the roadside and looked on in awe and waited till the convoy made its way. They rarely got to see him in person except in official or public meetings. The same Speaker is now seen making tea, ironing clothes, dishing out tiffins, driving a bullock cart and what not much to the surprise of common folk. They are still in awe of him while he acts out life of a commoner, but people at the back quip “it’s election time”.
High on aspirations
Assuming the Congress high command would declare her as the candidate for Armoor Assembly segment MLC Akula Lalitha filed her papers on the first day of nominations on Monday.
She is the lone candidate to have filed papers in all the nine constituencies in the erstwhile undivided Nizamabad district. Ms. Lalitha has already launched a campaign far ahead of others, more or less along with the TRS candidates, despite there being two others in the race for the party ticket. The question remains what would the general secretary of All India Mahila Congress do if the party high command does not give her the party ticket.
Doctor first, politics later
CPI (M)-backed Bahujan Left Front (BLF)’s candidate from Madhira Assembly constituency Kota Rambabu’s timely gesture helped a critically injured road accident victim access emergency medicare at a hospital late on Sunday night.
Dr. Rambabu, a doctor by profession, was returning to Madhira in a car along with his supporters from Yerrupalem, after winding up his dawn-to-dusk election campaign, when he noticed a person lying on the roadside beside a bike with a group of passers-by gathered around him at Katleru bridge in the mandal on Sunday night.
He got down from his car and assessed the medical condition of the road accident victim. The injured, identified as 35-year-old Pradeep working as a private security guard of Yerrupalem mandal, had suffered multiple fractures on his right leg and had injuries on his back in an apparent hit and run case, sources said.
Dr. Rambabu immediately called an ambulance service and without wasting time carried the injured person in his car and rushed to Madhira. The ambulance met them on the road and the doctor helped transfer the injured person to the ambulance to be taken to Khammam for treatment. The victim’s condition is reported to be stable.