Telangana Assembly Poll News: Komatireddy Raj Gopal Reddy, who quit the Congress to join the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) in 2022, has announced that he will return to the Congress ahead of the crucial Telangana polls. While this is a setback for the BJP, it is also noteworthy that Komatireddy had unsuccessfully contested with the saffron party in the Munugode Assembly last year.
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Komatireddy’s statement comes soon after his name was conspicuously absent from the BJP’s original list of candidates. Rajagopal Reddy had won Munugode in 2018 on a Congress ticket. Later in 2022, he left the Congress and resigned as an MLA, subsequently joining the BJP.
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The former Congress lawmaker left Congress in August last year and made headlines. He had contested the by-elections in October but lost to BRS candidate K Prabhakar Reddy by a margin of 10,309 votes.
Komatireddy has said that the reason for his constant back and forth between the Congress and the BJP is that he wants to ‘reject’ the K Chandrashekar Rao government in Telangana. Reddy also said that “the mood of the people is in favor of the Congress”.
A notable factor in this ongoing interaction by Komatireddy Raj Gopal Reddy is that he had enforced one of the most expensive election procedures in India when he quit the Congress and thus the Munogode became vacant.
The Munugode elections in November 2022 are considered to be one of the most expensive polls in the country’s history due to the parties’ expenditure to recruit voters. NDTV reports.
Worth in cash, according to pollsters ₹ 8 crore and 5,000 liters of liquor were seized in the run-up to the elections. The bypoll was also in the news for being the country’s ‘most watched’ election – 48 CCTV cameras monitored the election process which was webcast at 298 police stations, the report added.
Reddy’s brother Komatireddy Venkat Reddy is a Congress MP and represents Bhuvanagiri in Parliament.
The Election Commission of India (ECI) announced on October 9 that the Telangana Assembly elections will take place on November 30. The counting of votes will take place on December 3.
Telangana will witness a three-way battle between the BJP, the ruling Bharat Rashtra Samithi and the Congress in the upcoming assembly elections.
In the previous Assembly elections in 2018, BRS managed to win 88 out of 119 seats and had a dominant vote share of 47.4 percent. The Congress came a distant second with 19 seats. The vote share was 28.7 percent.
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Updated: Oct 25, 2023 8:43 PM IST
