GHMC Polls: Congress To Launch "Mission Old City"

The Congress will launch its campaigning for the upcoming GHMC elections in the Old City of Hyderabad on Sunday.

Congress leader and the Leader of the Opposition in the Telangana Legislative Council Mohammed Ali Shabbir unveiled a special pamphlet published by the Greater Hyderabad Congress Committee's Minorities Department Chairman Shaik Abdullah Sohail at the CLP office on Saturday.

Abdullah Sohail said that the GHCC Minorities Department would be launching the campaign from the Chandrayanagutta Assembly constituency at 4 pm on Sunday.

A massive rally would be taken out from the Bandlaguda crossroads to the Uppuguda bridge, he said.

TPCC president N Uttam Kumar Reddy, the Leaders of the Opposition K Jana Reddy (Assembly) and Mohammed Ali Shabbir (Council), TPCC working president Mallu Bhatti Vikaramarka, Greater Hyderabad Congress president Danam Nagender, TPCC Minorities Department chairman Mohammed Fakhruddin, GHCC general secretary Syed Nizamuddin and other senior leaders will address street-corner meetings at Bandlaguda, Mumtaz Bagh, Salala, Barkas, the Keshavgiri crossroads, Ghazi-e-Millat Colony, Naseeb Nagar and Uppuguda Colony.

The Congress rally will cover three wards - Chandrayanagutta, Barkas and Uppuguda - in the Chandrayangutta Assembly constituency.

The Congress has published pamphlets in Urdu, and also in Roman Urdu for the convenience of the Old City's youth who cannot read Urdu.

"The people of the Old City are groaning under poverty, illiteracy, unemployment and lack of civic amenities. Despite getting elected from the areas of the Old City since 1961, the MIM leaders have failed miserably in bringing the required development in the Old City. We will expose each and every failure of the MIM and will certainly bring a new revolution in the Old City," said Abdullah Sohail.

He expressed confidence that Sunday's rally would mark the beginning of a new era in Hyderabad's politics.