KCR Vs Vijaya shanthi: All Eyes on Medak Lok Sabha Seat

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KCR Vs Vijaya shanthi: All Eyes on Medak Lok Sabha Seat

Medak Lok Sabha seat is the hot topic in Telangana today. Vijaya Shanthi is chosen as Congress candidate for Medak seat. She won from this constituency in the last election from TRS. After Telangana is announced, she joined congress party. She even criticized KCR for going back on his promise that he will merge TRS party if Congress gives separate Telangana state.

Hyderabad: Earlier KCR said that Vijaya Shanthi is his sister but now he is contesting from Medak, challenging Vijaya Shanthi. In last elections, Vijaya Shanthi won the election opposite congress leader C. Narendranath by 6077 votes. Separate Telangana movement, her own glamour helped her to win the seat. Later there were difference between both of them and she stayed away from TRS party for many days.

According to sources close to Vijaya Shanthi, Congress president Sonia Gandhi agreed to give her the Medak Lok Sabha seat. This is the reason why Vijaya Shanthi did not request TPCC to allot the seat to her. C Damodar Raja Narasimha, Geetha Reddy and Sunitha Reddy belong to Medak district but Vijaya Shanthi seems to have not approached any of them. But if the seat is allotted to Vijaya Shanthi, all these will have to work for her victory. Five sitting MLA’s in the constituency and Damodar Raja Narasimha will work for the victory of Vijaya Shanthi which will be beneficial for her.

Five assembly segments in Medak Lok Sabha region belong to congress sitting MLAs and TRS and TDP are in one place each. KCR wants to damage the vote bank of Congress here and win maximum assembly seats and thus he himself wants to contest from here. He will be contesting from Medak Lok Sabha as well as Gajwel assembly seat. TRC party leaders are confident that they can win five assembly segments among seven assembly segments in this Lok Sabha constituency. They also expect that two assembly segments in Zaheerabad Lok Sabha region can also be won by TRS if KCR contests from Medak.

There are more than 14,87,000 voters in Medak Lok Sabha constituency and KCR is expected to get more than one lakh votes majority only from Siddipet assembly segment. T. Harish Rao contested from Siddipet assembly constituency in the previous sub elections and won with over more than ninety five thousand votes. Siddipet assembly constituency is the own constituency of KCR and this also helps in getting more majority. C Narendranath is contesting as BJP candidate from Medak. The contest between KCR, Vijaya Shanthi and Narendranath is going to attract the attention of all people in Telangana.