Congress resorting to malpractices for ULB chiefs’ elections: BRS

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The ruling Congress is resorting to malpractices, undemocratic methods and anarchy for the predetermination of municipal chairpersons and mayors by forcibly admitting those elected connected different enactment tickets oregon by threatening them, wide caput of the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) and erstwhile IPS serviceman R.S. Praveen Kumar said.

Speaking to newspersons present connected Sunday, helium said the Congress could triumph lone 4 municipalities successful 2020 and this clip the BRS had polled astir 30% votes. Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy was ridiculing the ideology by keeping the cardinal portfolios specified arsenic home, municipal administration, acquisition and others with him.

The information that the full municipal predetermination process was completed wrong 1 week was intelligibly indicating wherefore Mr. Revanth Reddy was keeping the location and municipal medication portfolios with him. The realty assemblage was successful doldrums arsenic helium was keeping the municipal portfolio with him.

He alleged that the State Election Commission had go a puppet successful the hands of the authorities arsenic it could not adjacent service a announcement connected Mr. Revanth Reddy adjacent aft helium asked the voters successful Vikarabad to enactment Congress and the BRS lodging a ailment connected it. Similarly, determination were incidents involving TPCC moving president T. Jagga Reddy and MP Dharmapuri Arvind astatine Sangareddy and Nizamabad connected the time of polling attracting notices from SEC, but successful vain.

A lawsuit was registered against Mr. Jagga Reddy successful the evening for namesake. Despite sending wealth bags, the ruling enactment could triumph hardly 51% of wards, Mr. Praveen Kumar alleged. He further alleged that the Chief Minister was sending constabulary to BRS camps by identifying locations done phone-tapping.

Dande Vittal, a BRS MLC defected to the Congress, was provided an ex-officio ballot successful Kagaznagar though helium did not ballot determination since helium had his ballot registered successful the Sanathnagar Assembly Constituency successful the city. He demanded that the predetermination to municipal chairpersons and mayors beryllium held transparently.

Published - February 15, 2026 09:18 p.m. IST

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