Race on in Telangana Congress for graduates MLC ticket

HYDERABAD: The race for Congress ticket for the upcoming Karimnagar-Adilabad-Nizamabad-Medak graduates constituency MLC election is heating up.

As sitting MLC T Jeeva Reddy’s term will end in March next year, the Election Commission of India (ECI) has begun the process for enrolment of graduates in the voters’ list.

Taking the cue, the Congress ticket aspirants have intensified their efforts to be in the good books of the party’s high command to land the ticket.

As things stand now, Jeevan Reddy’s chances of getting the ticket are bright. The party high command had already made a promise to him to this effect at the time

Jagtial sitting BRS MLA M Sanjay Kumar joined the Congress.

Jeevan Reddy opposed Sanjay’s entry into the Congress afraid that it would lead to dilution of his importance in the constituency. He had even indicated that he would chart his own course if Sanjay was taken into the party. The party, to mollify him, promised the ticket to prevent him from slipping away from the Congress.