Congress Rebel Candidates Likely To Hurt Winning Prospects of Party Nominees
Multiple nominations and ticket confusion threaten vote split across wards
Adilabad: Congress rebel candidates are likely to hurt the winning prospects of the party nominees in the municipal elections, as in the Sarpanch elections in the erstwhile Adilabad district.
Adding to the confusion, some senior leaders promised party tickets to more than one candidate in each ward. Party candidates may face non-cooperation from other hopefuls who are denied party tickets.
According to official sources, as many as 776 nominations were filed by 496 candidates. Among them, BJP had 128, the Congress 266, and the BRS 137 candidates for the 49 wards in the Adilabad municipality.
The number of nominations from each major political party reflects more than one candidate from each party who filed nominations, and they may remain as rebels in the fray.
The highest nominations were filed by the Congress candidates, with the BRS coming second and the BJP third.
The Congress high command is against the sway of party rebels in the fray. This, it notes, would damage the winning chances of the party candidate and divide the votes.
The Congress high command feels the party did not perform well in the Sarpanch elections and that the party lost in a considerable number of GPs due to the presence of party rebels in the fray. The local leaders failed to make a try for withdrawal of rebel candidates from the fray, it felt.
Hints are that the party is constituting a committee with senior leaders to ensure the withdrawal of rebel candidates from the fray for the easy win of the party candidates as ward members in the municipal polls.
The Congress has lost many important major gram panchayat Sarpanch posts and mandal headquarters posts due to party rebels remaining in the fray and because of a lack of coordination among the party senior leaders in the gram panchayat elections in the Komaram Bheem Asifabad district.
