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Ticket-aspirants look to TRS, even across parties

By Our Staff Reporter

WARANGAL DEC. 18. The mass migration of Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party leaders into the Telangana Rasthra Samithi (TRS) is worrying not only those parties, but also the TRS.

More and more political leaders are preferring the TRS, considering the possibility of securing an Assembly seat in the coming elections. Unlike other parties where the number of aspirants is not more than four or five, in the TRS there more than half a dozen aspirants for each of the constituencies in the district. Those who were confident of securing the ticket feel threatened with the new entrants into the party while the Congress and the BJP were worried for losing the senior cadre with considerable following. The former MLAs from Parkal, B. Sammaiah (Congress) and Jayapal (BJP), recently joined the TRS in the hope of getting a ticket from the same place.

Similarly, B. Vinod Kumar, TRS general secretary and a close confidant of the party president, and who had been planning to contest from Hanamkonda, would find it hard to secure the ticket with the former forest officer, K Dileep, joining the party in the hope of getting the ticket for the Hanamkonda constituency.

In the TRS, the competition for the Hanamkonda ticket is very heavy.

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