KCR blaming Election Commission not right: Bandi Sanjay
The Hindu
KCR wrote to EC to defer the byelections, says BJP State chief
Predicting and exuding confidence that their respective candidates were going to win Huzurabad byelection, leaders of both the TRS and the BJP on Monday claimed it was “one-sided war” for them. Congress leaders contended that only their nominee can be the “real voice of the people” and both BJP and TRS were enacting a drama of rivalry.
With only 48 hours remaining to down the curtains on campaign, candidates of the main political parties tried to cover the constituency as extensively as possible. Main leaders and star campaigners of the BJP and the TRS went to different parts of the constituency while their nominees Eatala Rajender and Gellu Srinivas Yadav respectively visited villages separately appealing people to vote for them.
Responding to TRS supremo and Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhara Rao’s comment at his party’s plenary in Hyderabad that Election Commission put spokes in his plan to convene election meeting outside Huzurabad, BJP State chief Bandi Sanjay retorted that KCR was blaming Election Commission for being neutral. It was KCR government that wrote to Election Commission to defer Huzurabad bypoll. “And now, he is blaming the Election Commission, which is known for conducting fair and free election,” he said.
One dies, eight hospitalised after inhaling HCL fumes at pharma company in Andhra Pradesh’s Anakapalli district. About 400 litres of HCL leaked from the reactor-cum-receiver tank at Unit-III of the company, which affected nine workers, says Collector. While the condition of six of them is stable, two are on ventilator support. Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu directs authorities to provide advanced treatment to the victims. Home Minister Anitha expresses anger over repeated such incidents.