The Hindu : Ganga Reddy to file nomination on March 28

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Tuesday, Mar 23, 2004

Andhra Pradesh

Andhra Pradesh - Nizamabad

Ganga Reddy to file nomination on March 28

By Our Staff Reporter

NIZAMABAD, MARCH 22. Even before the Congress and the Telangana Rashtra Samiti formally announced the seats, which they are going to contest in Nizamabad district, the former MP, Gaddam Ganga Reddy, has declared that he would file his nomination papers from Dichpalli Assembly constituency on March 28.

Mr. Ganga Reddy, who quit the TDP to join the TRS, told reporters here on Monday afternoon that he would formally file his papers for the Dichpalli constituency on March 28 and launch the campaign from Sakriya Naik tanda of Ramadugu gram panchayat in Dharpalli mandal on March 30. He said that though the TRS chief had not declared his candidature, he would nevertheless file his papers on March 28. He contended that the party high command had given him the go ahead to file the papers and launch the campaign. He said the party would officially announce his candidature in the next two days.

Mr. Ganga Reddy's announcement has cleared the decks for a keen contest between him and the Minister for School Education, Mandava Venkateswara Rao, who has been re-nominated by the TDP in the first list announced yesterday. The two leaders are expected to take the plunge into electioneering in a couple of days.

Leaders woo rival party cadres

Their determination to win the seat is witnessing a different kind of spectacle in the constituency. The ruling TDP and the TRS leaders are making all out efforts to woo the leaders and cadres of the rival political parties into their fold. For the last couple of days, the political parties are going all out to woo the voters in the Assembly constituencies. Developments in the last few days reveal that the oneupmanship between the two leaders has reached a new low with both claiming that there is mass exodus from one party to the other. Every day the leaders of the two parties are parading little known leaders and village-level party activists before mediapersons to claim that there is steady flow into the respective parties. Even on Monday, the TRS leaders organised a meeting at the Laxmi Kalyanamandapam on the outskirts of the town, to announce the entry of mandal TDP leaders along with their supporters.

A similar development also took place in the presence of Mr. Venkateswara Rao, who paraded a couple of TRS leaders and some Mahila Congress leaders to prove that many of them are being attracted towards the good work done by the ruling TDP.

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