On May 16 the by-poll to Palair Assembly segment in Telangana is anticipated to witness a contest between the ruling TRS and Congress as TDP and YSR Congress have decided not to field their candidates. The ruling TRS has chosen the State Roads and Buildings minister Tummala Nageswara Rao as its candidate.
The Congress has appealed to all the other parties to let Venkata Reddy's widow be elected unopposed as per a tradition in undivided Andhra Pradesh and also in view of the departed leader's clean image and the State Congress president N Uttam Kumar Reddy has written to the parties to let the Congress nominee be elected unopposed.
The Party working president M Bhatti Vikramarka has also called on TDP Telangana unit president L Ramana, YSR Congress president YS Jaganmohan Reddy and leaders of other parties with the request and the YSR Congress and TDP have declared their decision not to field their candidates.
Vikramarka has today hoped that the CPI and CPI(M), which have a presence in Khammam district would also not field candidates. TDP and YSR Congress which are anti-Congress in nature have now come together to defeat the TRS in the Palair bypoll.
