Huzurabad candidates get into battle mode
The Hindu
Intensive campaigning by main contestants in the byelection
With just nine days left for campaign, all candidates for Huzurabad byelection entered battle mode trying to reach out to maximum number of voters on Monday.
Though campaign started from the day of filing nominations on October 1, with Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) nominee Eatala Rajender staying ahead of all others by touring the constituency soon after his resignation as MLA on June 12, election canvassing slowed down due to Dasara festival on Friday. Dasara celebrations continued till Sunday.
Though 30 candidates are in the fray, main fight is between nominees of the Congress, Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) and the BJP with the latter two claiming one another as their main opponent. Minster for Finance T. Harish Rao, who is said to have been assigned the task of securing ruling party candidate Gellu Srinivas Yadav’s victory, has campaigned in Rampur, Rangapur, Kanukalagidde and other villages in Huzurabad mandal with the party nominee.