Hyderabad: Elections to six Rajya Sabha seats is expected to be a murky affair with several fence sitters being lured by all the four prominent political parties — the Congress, Telugu Desam, YSR Congress and the Telangana Rashtra Samiti.
The fence-sitters have been told to vote for the candidates of the parties they want to join.
The TD will also field a dalit leader M. Narasimhulu from Telangana. In all likelihood the party will field actor Nandamuri Balakrishna for the second seat.
Sources in the Congress said that M.A. Khan, the lone MP in the country from the Shia community, has been given an assurance by the high command that he will be renominated. T
he party will seek support from the seven-member Majlis Ittehadul Muslimeen for Khan.
YSR’s friend and sitting MP, Dr K.V.P. Ramachandra Rao, is trying his best to be renominated. Sources close of Rao told this newspaper that the high command appreciated his efforts to retain a majority of YSR loyalists in the Congress and save the Kiran Kumar Reddy government when Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy floated his new outfit.
Dr Rao may be allotted the task of retaining all those Congress MLAs who have set their eyes on other parties.
