History repeats in Pinapaka constituency

Kothagudem: History is going to be repeated in Pinapaka Assembly segment in the district as Congress MLA  Rega Kantha Rao has decided to join the ruling TRS.

For the political pundits, it was not a news as the Assembly segment has a history that people vote against the ruling party in the elections but their representatives switch side and join whosoever rules the State.

According to the history of the constituency, former MLAs U Abbaiah, K  Biksham, Chandha Lingaiah, Tati Venkateswarlu and Payam Venkatesarlu who won the Assembly election on one party,  and later join another parties.  It has become some kind of tradition of the constituency for several years.

The former MLAs U Abbaiah and K Biksham had won on the CPI ticket and they joined TDP and Congress, which were in power in the State. Chandha Lingaiah joined BJP, and Tati Venkateswalu had joined TRS party.

In 2014 elections, Payam Venkateswarlu who won on YSRCP ticket  and joined ruling TRS party after the winning the election. The Congress party MLA R Kantha Rao is also joining the ruling party.

The rumours of his joining of TRS was doing rounds when he resigned from all PCC posts and finally from the membership of the party.  He will join TRS on Saturday. He will be the sixth MLA from the Pinapaka consistency who would be joining another party.

Anyway, it will be some kind of betrayal of the people mandate who had voted him and got him win the election with overwhelming majority for being the Opposition alliance Mahakutami’ candidate against the ruling TRS nominee in the last Assembly elections in which the ruling party had drawn almost blank drawn blank in erstwhile Khammam district except one seat.

The reason behind the defeat of the party was resentment among the tribals as the government had not issued pattadar passbooks to their podu lands and thus deprived them of the benefits of several schemes meant for farmers. And now their representative, who could have raised a voice in the Assembly for their cause, betrayed them and going to join the ruling party since he is seeing his benefits not theirs.