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TRS disinclined to contest GHMC polls

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— PHOTO: NAGARA GOPAL

CRUCIAL PLANS: TRS president K. Chandrasekhar Rao at a meeting with party leaders in Hyderabad on Friday.

HYDERABAD: The Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) has said that it was disinclined to contest Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) elections but a final view in the matter would be taken at its State executive meeting on Monday.

Briefing reporters after a meeting of the Polit Bureau which discussed the issue on Friday, TRS president K. Chandrasekhar Rao said most of the Polit Bureau members were unanimous that the party should not enter the polls. However, a couple of them from Hyderabad felt the need to give their followers an opportunity to face elections.

The party would consult its Hyderabad-based leaders and different organisations in the next two days and leave the final decision to the State executive which will declare its stand in the form of a resolution.

The party also bought time to make up a decision because the High Court was expected to deliver its judgment on staying of elections on Monday, Mr. Rao said.

The TRS president allayed apprehensions of the cadre about delay in the event of the party deciding to enter elections as they would still have three more days to file nominations.

He condemned the hasty step of the State Election Commission in issuing the election notification though the Supreme Court had clarified that the election process was subject to the final order of the High Court.

However, the matter was still pending in the High Court. He also found fault with the SEC in inviting political parties for consultations after the notification was issued.

Misdeeds

The elections were a conspiracy to divert the attention of people from large scale land transactions by government.

The party was more interested in exposing the misdeeds of the government than contesting elections, he added.

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