TRS MPTC elected as Peddemul Mandal Pradesh Vice-president

Peddemul: Tattepalli MPTC Lakshman of the TRS was on Thursday elected the Mandal Pradesh vice-president unanimously in the election conducted by the RDO Venu Madhav. In the election that generated a lot of interest till the end, the result went in the way of the TRS as the strategy of Transport Minister P Mahender Reddy paid off. 

Though the Congress has majority in the House and five of them crossed over to the TRS, the official records put the strength of Congress at 9. Taking advantage of the fact, the Congress tried to capture the post in the name of issue of the party whip. But the strategy failed. Mahender Reddy intervened and cajoled the Congress MPTCs crossed over to the TRS and asked them to work for the development of the mandal cutting across the party affiliations.