: The Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI) will contest the upcoming local body elections on its own at the district-level. Announcing its candidates to the District Panchayat at the Press Club here on Thursday, president of the district unit of the party Musthafa Kommeri said the SDPI had decided to field its own candidates in all different levels of the local body elections.
“However, the party will also resort to different poll tactics, including giving support to other fronts in crucial wards, so as to prevent the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) from coming to power,” said Mr. Kommeri.
Announcing the names of 27 candidates to the select wards of the District Panchayat, Mr. Kommeri said the party would also announce its candidates to other segments of the local body elections after holding a candidates’-meet in the city in the afternoon on Friday. The party, according to him, had decided to field candidates in nearly 50 per cent of all the grama panchayat wards in the election.
Claiming that the SDPI was the first to announce its candidates to the local body polls in the district, Mr. Kommeri said discussions were in progress with different parties in the two mainstream political fronts in the State to share votes in wards where the party would not have its candidates.
