Hyderabad: The ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) has claimed that former MLA leader Eatala Rajender, who is now with the opposition BJP, is opening new bank accounts in the Huzurabad assembly chair to distribute it to voters ahead of the rally. on October 30th.
In a letter to the chief electoral officer (CEO), Telangana, the secretary general of the TRS, M. Srinivas Reddy, said on Friday that Eatala and his supporters, especially one named Bhadrayya, allegedly had new bank accounts in the constituency in Huzurabad open. . “The activity is a serious offense and out and out of corrupt practice in terms of the provisions of various criminal laws and also in violation of (the) Code of Conduct,” reads an excerpt from his letter.
The TRS letter to Telangana CEO Shashank Goel said he had ‘reliable information’ about the alleged opening of new bank accounts by Eatala Rajender and his associates. “Over the past few days, we have brought to the fore several illegalities of the BJP party and its candidate Eatala Rajender. But unfortunately no action is taken, despite the fact that we have provided you with impeccable evidence … ‘the former said.
Concluding the letter, Secretary-General of the party, M. Srinivas Reddy, said that the issue should be investigated “immediately”, and that it would otherwise be an irreparable loss to the TRS’s prospects in the forthcoming October 30 poll. cause. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had earlier also written to the chief electoral officer about the violations of the electoral code by the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS). The BJP claims that the TRS bribes people through online payments like Google Pay.
Prior to October 18, the Electoral Commission of India (ECI) on Monday ordered the government of Telangana to halt the implementation of the Dali Bandhu scheme until the Huzurabad rally on October 30th.
The ECI, in a letter to the Telangana chief executive, called for the latter to postpone the implementation of the Dalit Bandhu scheme “in all its forms” until the by-elections in Huzurabad are completed. Under the new Beneficiary Direct Transfer Program (DBT), KCR has promised to give each eligible Dalit beneficiary Rs 10 lakh to help them financially. The money can also be used to set up a business of their choice.
In fact, Prime Minister KCR selected the constituency of the Huzurabad Assembly in the poll as a pilot for the Dalit Bandhu scheme and even released Rs 2 000 million to start implementing the program there.
The upcoming by-elections in Huzurabad on October 30 are mostly seen as a direct match between the ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) and former health minister Eatala Rajender, who is currently with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). At the upcoming rally in Huzurabad, to be held on October 30, the TRS candidate is local party member Gellu Srinivas Yadav, who faces the BJP’s Eatala Rajender. In the previous state elections of 2018, Rajender received 104469 votes, with Congress candidate P. Kaushik Reddy receiving 60604 votes.
The BJP’s Raghu Puppala received only 1670 votes. During the 2018 state elections, the BJP also won just one out of 119 seats. However, it is now very different as Kaushik Reddy has joined the TRS and is waiting for his MLC nomination to be cleared by Telangana Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan.
For Eatala Rajender, the additional poll is also a prestige issue, as he is a former assistant to KCR and a former minister of TRS. Rajender was fired from the Telangana cabinet in May this year after allegations against him appeared. He then resigned as a Member of Parliament and joined the BJP in June. A victory for him is a big slap in the face for KCR, and it will also boost the BJP, which claims to be the most important opposition party in the state, a position that Congress has naturally held until recently. .
Source: The Siasat Daily