‘Backward classes will extend their support to TDP’
The Hindu
Former Minister Kondru Muralimohan predicts BC support for TDP due to YSRCP failures, gains local leaders in Rajam.
Former Minister and TDP Rajam in-charge Kondru Muralimohan on Tuesday said that the backward classes would come back to the TDP fold in the coming elections as they understood that the YSRCP government failed to ensure self-reliance through BC, SC and ST Corporations, which were not given funds in the last five years.
Several YSRCP local leaders joined TDP in his presence in Rajam. Speaking on the occasion, he said that BC declaration of ‘Super Six schemes’ of TDP caught the attention of backward and downtrodden classes.
Mr. Murali alleged that YSRCP looted public money by putting heavy burden in the form of electricity charges, bus fares and higher rates for liquor. TDP leaders Guravana Narayana Rao, Vanga Venkata Rao and others were present.
The Election Commission of India will hold a press conference on June 3, a day before the counting of votes polled in the Lok Sabha polls. Till the 2019 parliamentary polls, deputy election commissioners used to hold media briefings after each phase of polls, but the practice has been done away with.