New friendships on anvil in the upcoming Telangana MLC elections under MLAs quota
The Hindu
Elections to the five MLCs under MLAs quota in Telangana might see new friendship between political parties
The poll schedule for five Legislative Council seats under the MLAs quota in Telangana has thrown up the need for new friendships between the political parties if they have to win an additional seat, when their current strength of MLAs is considered.
The elections will be held on March 20, 2025 to fill up the five vacancies arising due to the completion of the terms of Mahmood Ali, Satyavathi Rathod, Seri Subash Reddy and Yegge Mallesham (all from BRS) and Mirza Riyaz ul Hassan from the AIMIM.
Each candidate has to poll 20 first preferential seats to get elected as an MLC, The second preferential votes will gain importance if a sixth candidate is fielded.
Congress with 65 MLAs will comfortably win three seats and Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) with 28 MLAs (after 10 MLAs shifted to Congress) is poised to win one seat. The remaining one seat will have to be contested by the Congress or its new ally All India Majlis-E-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) and the latter being the favourite to contest with the help of the ruling party.
The Bharat Rashtra Samiti (BRS) can also take the risk of contesting the second seat if it considers that the Supreme Court might come up with some positive direction on the 10 BRS MLAs who shifted to the Congress. To escape disqualification, the MLAs might be forced to vote for the official BRS candidate if the Supreme Court decides a date for the Speaker to take action against them before March 20.
While the Congress, BRS and AIMIM can play their cards to extract a seat more than their potential , the BJP with eight MLAs will be a loner as Congress and AIMIM would never ally with it. The BRS too cannot risk its image fearing being branded as pro-BJP if they were to take BJP’s support for the second candidate
The Supreme Court’s directions on defections will, however, have a huge impact on the outcome of the poll result.
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