Congress to rivet eyes on winning more municipal corporations

Hyderabad: The Congress would focus on winning large number of municipal corporations in the State so that it could clinch majority of them in upcoming municipal elections.

Out of the total 13 municipal corporations, Greater Warangal Municipal Corporation (66 wards), Karimnagar (60), Ramagundam (50), Nizamabad (60), Khammam (60), Badangpet (32), Bandlaguda Jagir (22), Meerpet (Meerpet and Jillelaguda) (46), Boduppal (28), Peerzadiguda (26), Jawaharnagar (28), Nizampet (33) and Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (150), elections would be held to 10. There would be no polls for Hyderabad, Warangal, and Khammam as the term of the bodies would end in 2021.

Election would also be held to 128 municipalities but the elections in corporations would attract more attention of the people.

Winning majority of the corporations would give an upper hand to the party.

Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) working president and convener of TPCC committee on municipal elections Ponnam Prabhakar said that the city voters have a better judgment and they would vote in favour of Congress.

He said that the urban voters want a voice to question the government and hope that they would vote in a big way to Congress.

From the corporations which would go to poll, most of them are around Hyderabad.

Badangpet, Bandlaguda, Meerpet, Boduppal, Peerzadiguda, Jawaharnagar and Nizampet corporations are part of Hyderabad Metro Development Corporation.

The corporations which would have election and are away from Hyderabad are Karimnagar, Ramagundam, and Nizamabad. Result of these polls to these corporations would also have an effect on the politics of the state.

According to Congress leaders, it would not be easy for the ruling party to win the polls in the corporations as influencing the voters would be difficult.

They said that the ruling party was able to influence the rural voters through various means and they could not repeat the same performance in the urban local body elections.