The Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee has exhorted its party cadre and sympathisers to verify whether their names were included in the voters lists during the summary revision and alleged that names of thousands of party workers were deliberately being removed.
TPCC president N. Uttam Kumar Reddy expressed doubt that Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao might recommend dissolution of the Assembly next month and go for elections along with Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Mizoram that were going to polls this year-end. The Chief Minister, he said, spoke to Prime Minister Narendra Modi twice on holding early elections in Telangana. It was therefore necessary for the party to prepare itself itself on war footing basis by strengthening the organisation, he said.
He wanted the party cadre and workers to also check whether or not the names of their family members, relatives and neighbours existed in the voters’ lists. The party cadre should visit the concerned municipal office, MROs office or check online from Monday to identify the names that were missing from the electoral rolls and ensure that the missing names were included again, he said. Mr. Reddy gave these directions during an interaction with the party leaders and cadre through social network site, Facebook, on Sunday. He said booth-level committees had be formed in almost 90% of the polling stations across the State with each committee comprising 14 members. These members would ensure that at least 25 people from each booth would be enrolled under the Shakti programme, he said.
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Simultaneously, the party was planning to complete the next phase of Praja Chaitanya Yatra which was stopped in view of the rains that lashed the State in the next fortnight and this would be followed by another mass contact programme, door to door campaign soon. Mr. Uttam Kumar Reddy alleged that the Government had cheated people through its fake promises all through the more than four-year rule and was gearing up for an early poll with the fear that the people could question the government on its failure to fulfil the promises made to different sections.
He charged the Chief Minister with indulging in intimidation and harassment of those opposed to the “wrong policies” of his government or they were lured into the TRS with money or posts. The Congress was committed to fulfil the promises like doubling pensions to different sections and taking steps to create employment opportunities in public and private sector besides providing unemployment allowance of ₹3,000 to a huge 10 lakh unemployed youth, he said.