BJP blames KCR for deferring Huzurabad bypoll

‘TRS leaders are fearing defeat’

State BJP president and Karimnagar MP Bandi Sanjay Kumar, on Sunday, blamed Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao for “engineering postponement of byelection to Huzurabad Assembly constituency on the pretext of COVID”. The TRS leaders had ensured the bypoll, from where former Health Minister Eatala Rajender is contesting, was not held with the other polls across the country as they feared defeat, he claimed. Addressing a public meeting as part of his ninth day of ‘Praja Sangrama Yatra’ in Vikarabad district on Sunday, Mr. Sanjay Kumar’s public campaign, which crossed the 100 km milestone by noon, questioned why the government had decided to open schools and colleges when the pandemic is still raging and it was dangerous to hold elections. “The ruling party leaders have been siding with corporate and private schools who in turn have been charging exorbitant fees from each student,” he said, after holding a meeting with teachers. He garlanded the portrait of former President Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan and also felicitated teachers on Teachers’ Day.