Hyderabad: All eyes in the TRS are on the 'sealed cover after party chief and Chief Minister K.
Chandrasekhar Rao revealed on Sunday at the celebration's state executive that names of TRS nominees for the election of Mayor and Deputy Mayor posts in the GHMC will be positioned in a sealed cover and exposed at the time of election on February 11.
Rao's announcement has kept ministers, party MLAs and other senior leaders on their toes, specifically those who have stepped up their efforts to secure the 2 sought after posts for their significants other or other family members, after it is now particular that TRS would bag both these posts comfortably.
Offered today political mixes, although none of the parties have actually secured magic figure to bag these posts, TRS has the advantage of being the single largest party in the GHMC, besides its greatest strength of ex-officio members, consisting of celebration MLAs, MLCs and MPs, who can enact the GHMC Mayoral election.The Mayor post has been scheduled for a woman in the general category for this time, making candidates from all castes vie for the post.
With this, ministers, MPs, MLAs, MLCs have all stepped up lobbying to bag the Mayor post for their kith and kin.
Some ministers even actioned in to bag the Mayor post for their fans.
The incumbent Mayor Bonthu Rammohan is lobbying hard to protect the post for his better half Bonthu Sridevi, who won from Cherlapally division, a ward abandoned by him.
Since she won for the first time, his opponents are opposing her candidature on this ground.Prominent names doing the rounds within the TRS for the Mayor post, include the children of previous Congress heavyweight leader from Khairatabad late P.
Janardhan Reddy, TRS secretary basic and Rajya Sabha member K.
Keshava Rao.Interestingly, both PJR's daughter P.
Vijaya Reddy (Khairatabad ward) and Keshav Rao's daughter Gadwal Vijayalakshmi (Banjara Hills) ward got chosen as corporator from the TRS for a second time in a row.
Both strongly argue that they should have the Mayor post for this reason.
This apart, Bharathi Nagar corporator Sindhu Adarsh Reddy, Alwal corporator Chintala Vijayashanthi, Manne Kavitha Reddy from Venkateshwara Nest ward and Mothe Sri Latha Reddy from Tarnaka ward are also said to be in the race for Mayor's post.Of them, Sindhu Adarsh Reddy is daughter-in-law of TRS MLC V.
Bhoopal Reddy, Chintala Vijayashanthi is daughter-in-law of former TRS MLA Chintala Kanaka Reddy, who died in May 2019, Manne Kavitha Reddy is wife of city TRS leader Manne Govardhan Reddy and Mothe Sri Latha Reddy is wed to city TRS leader Mothe Shobhan Reddy.
Though no celebration might protect the magic figure of 75 seats out of 150 to bag the Mayoral post by itself, TRS became the single largest celebration by winning 56 seats while the BJP stood 2nd with 48 seats (now 47, after among its corporator-elect died), AIMIM 3rd was with 44 seats while the annihilated Congress is fourth with two seats.Only 44 out of the overall 52 ex-officio members were discovered to be eligible to enact the election.
Of them, 32 come from TRS, 10 to AIMIM and two to BJP.
The staying eight ex-officio members (6 from TRS and 2 from Congress) have exercised their votes in other municipal corporations and thus their names were deleted from the GHMC election.