Congress MP Ponnam Prabhakar on Tuesday said that the party cadre will ensure victory for its candidates in the forthcoming by-elections to the 10 constituencies in Telangana region.
Talking to media persons, Ponnam said that the Congress is the only party which can turn the dream of a separate Telangana into a reality, while all that the Telangana Rashtra Samithi aims for is to win back the seats resigned by its members over the Telangana issue.
He also questioned what the Telugu Desam Party's goal is, and criticised the TDP leadership for saying that it would contest the by-polls if the Congress also contested them. He wanted to know why the TDP was insisting on following the Congress's lead.
He said that if the Congress bags all the seats in Telangana, then the responsibility to press for the creation of Telangana would increase. He added that even if the TRS bags the seats, then, too, the onus on the Congress would increase.
He said that the Congress has its presence in every hamlet, village and city in the country, leave alone the Telangana region, and brushed off the threat by Telangana students to disrupt the Congress' campaign.