Telangana: Congress doesn’t stand a chance in bypoll, says Komatireddy Venkat Reddy in viral tape

HYDERABAD: Even before the dust settles on a purported audio clip of Congress MP Komatireddy Venkat Reddy in which he was allegedly heard asking a party worker to canvass for his younger brother K Raj Gopal Reddy who is the BJP candidate in Munugode, another video surfaced online on Friday in which the Bhuvanagiri MP was allegedly seen telling a group of people that Congress candidate Palvai Sravanthi does not stand a chance of winning the November 3 bypoll.
In the video, Venkat Reddy was allegedly heard saying that if he campaigned for the Congress candidate, it might fetch another 10,000 votes but there was no chance of the candidate coasting to victory. In the video, Venkat Reddy was seen engaged in a casual conversation with Telugu community people in Melbourne, Australia, when they came to receive him at the airport.
He also talked about money power reigning in Munugode bypoll during his conversation with the group. “What can we do if two ruling parties are in the election fray. The Congress is not in a position to put money into the campaign,” he was heard as saying.
Venkat Reddy has stayed away from directly campaigning either for the Congress candidate or his brother who quit Congress to fight the by-election on a BJP ticket.