Congress BC officials remain silent on overrepresentation
The state Congress unit’s Backward Classes (BC) leadership, which was incensed that their group had received fewer tickets than others before to the Assembly elections, is now keeping quiet about their participation in the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections. According to party insiders, the BC leaders are keeping a “strategic silence” because they are considering running for the TPCC president position.
BC leaders in the state publicly voiced their disapproval of the Congress for awarding tickets to just 23 BC leaders before of the Assembly elections, citing senior party leader Rahul Gandhi’s slogan, “Jitni Abadi, Utna Haq,” which states that rights should be proportional to the number of a group.
They have called for a minimum of three seats in each Lok Sabha segment in the most recent elections. Even more, a group of leaders traveled to New Delhi to address the Congress high leadership with their arguments. It has been discovered, nonetheless, that the BC leaders were forced to agree to 23 by the leadership.
Out of the 14 seats designated for the Lok Sabha elections, the Congress has granted three tickets to BCs.
The front-runners for the last three seats are two politicians from the upper caste and a leader of a minority group in Khammam, Karimnagar, and Hyderabad. According to the reports, a powerful figure in the BC is attempting to secure a Velama candidate’s Karimnagar ticket.
According to the sources, even though the party has granted tickets to three BC leaders, the areas where they were nominated have comparatively lower levels of support for the Congress. Under the condition of anonymity, a party senior noted that while Neelam Madhu has been fielded from Medak, the seat is often thought of as a BRS stronghold.
Six of the seven Assembly seats that comprise the Medak Lok Sabha segment have been won by the pink party.
Given the possibility of a new state unit head after the Lok Sabha elections, BC leaders in the party are getting ready to put pressure on the high leadership of the Congress to choose a community leader as the TPCC president. They bring up the “injustice” in the context of the Lok Sabha and Assembly elections, particularly given that the party is now promoting BC rights.
