BJP Pacifies Angry Leaders, Congress Can't

The Telangana BJP seemed to have managed to successfully pacify its leaders who had resigned expressing discontent in the allotment of tickets for the GHMC elections.

The Party seniors held meetings with these bitter leaders and tried to convince them of the compelling situations encountered in the allotment of tickets following the seat-sharing agreement with the TDP.

According to reports, Telangana BJP president G Kishan Reddy did not accept the resignation of Meesala Chandraiah, the Party's Ranga Reddy district (urban) president. Similarly, the Party leadership convinced former MLA Prem Singh Rathod, in-charge of the Goshamanal division, who had also submitted his resignation as his son did not get a ticket for the GHMC elections, to stay back.

However, the protests of the Congress party's ticket aspirants who failed to get B-Forms for the elections continued even on Friday at Gandhi Bhavan.

The rejected aspirants came with their followers in large numbers even on Friday to express their ire over the Party leadership. The large numbers of the rebellious crowds forced the staff of Gandhi Bhavan to even lock the main gate.

TPCC secretary Suresh Yadav came to Gandhi Bhavan and burnt the effigy of the former Union Minister Sarve Satyanarayana in front of the main gate for the Party not giving a ticket to his daughter Jyostna Yadav for the Goutham Nagar division though it had assured a ticket to her. He alleged that Satyanarayana sold the Goutham Nagar ticket to another candidate for Rs. 30 lakhs.

Another candidate named Renu from the Ghansi Bazar division came to Gandhi Bhavan along with her followers and staged a dharna in the premises. She alleged that the Telangana Legislative Council Opposition leader Mohd Ali Shabbir had sold the ticket though the Party had assured her of the ticket for Ghansi Bazar.