Hyderabad: Congress party is gearing up to pool up its 19 MLAs for forthcoming MLC elections in Telangana. The camp strategy has been moved by the Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) over fears that some MLAs are in touch with TRS. The election for five MLCs is scheduled on March 12. TRS wants to win all the five and its votes of 21 MLAs to win each MLC.
TRS has strength of 90 MLAs including two rebels and support of one nominated member and seven AIMIM MLAs. This takes total tally to 98 for TRS as against the required 105 MLAs to win five MLCs.
“So, the ruling party is eyeing our MLAs. If TRS manages to get 13 MLAs then they wouldn’t be disqualified as per the two-third members clause. That’s the reason, TPCC wants to camp the 19 MLAs to check any defection. It’s learnt that one senior leader has proposed to take all the 19 MLAs on a tour,” said a senior leader.
Congress party has reportedly considered a plant to take the MLAs to a place, where Sabari river merges with Godavari at Kunavaram, East Godavari district in Andhra Pradesh. On Election day i.e. march 12, MLAs will be brought back directly to Assembly.
Congress has finalised Guduru Narayana Reddy for MLC election. With 19 MLAs, Congress is falling short of two more MLAs and looking to TDP, which has two MLAs in Telangana Assembly.
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