HYDERABAD: Protest groups of private teachers, unemployed youth and field assistants in Huzurabad are claiming they would file multiple nominations to recreate the Nizamabad 2019 Lok Sabha polls, when 175 turmeric farmers filed over 170 nominations for the MP election to highlight their demands.
In 2019, chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao’s daughter and then sitting MP K Kavitha, lost the election to BJP’s Dharmapuri Arvind. Two years later for the Huzurabad bypolls, there could be multiple nominations filed to confront the TRS government, sources said. The field assistants’ joint action committee has stated that 1,000 members will file nominations while the unemployed youth JAC announced t 30 members a are ready to file nominations.
Even YSRTP chief YS Sharmila has openly supported the unemployed youth joint action committee’s efforts to file nominations in large numbers. While her newly-floated party itself is unlikely to be in the running for Huzurabad bypolls, sources have indicated Sharmila is keen on being a major player in it through her support for protest groups. She has also expressed support for the cause of field assistants who had lost their jobs with the revenue department.
Telangana Martyrs JAC, on the other hand, did not run in the Nagarjuna Sagar by-election despite proclaiming its intention to do so. The JAC alleged they were threatened with not filing the nomination.
Elsewhere, the Huzurabad doctors’ organisation has slammed the TRS government for its alleged disregard for the health sector. National executive member of the Indian Medical Association (IMA), Dr Vijay Chandar Reddy has backed former health minister and now-BJP functionary Eatala Rajender stating that Eatala had coordinated the health department well during the pandemic. “All around the state, seasonal fevers are being recorded but nothing is being done about it,” Dr Chandar Reddy said.
