HYDERABAD: After Kaushik Reddy’s episode, Congress has decided not to project anyone as its likely candidate to contest Huzurabad bypoll.
A strategy to keep the names of top three contenders under wraps will be implemented to avoid poaching of its candidates by the ruling TRS.
On his part, former MP from Karimnagar Ponnam Prabhakar has said he is not keen on entering the electoral fray from Huzurabad.
Kaushik, who was touted as the main candidate from Congress for the Huzurabad bypoll, resigned from the party on Monday. He is likely to join the TRS soon. He had thrown a challenge to TPCC chief A Revanth Reddy and Prabhakar to contest the Huzurabad by-election and try not to lose the deposit.
The think-tank of the Telangana Congress has given the task of short-listing the top three contenders for the bypoll to the party’s newly-constituted election strategy and management committee headed by former deputy chief minister Damodar Raja Narasimha.
The committee is preparing the list of contenders in consultation with MLC T Jeevan Reddy, MLA D Sridhar Babu and former party working president Prabhakar.
A team led by Raja Narasimha will tour Huzurabad to know the ground situation. He is from SC community. Huzurabad constituency has over 45 per cent of voters from SC community.
