[1]The Telangana Joint Action Committee is likely to support the Telangana Rashtra Samiti in the Parkal bypoll for the last time before turning into a non-political organisation. Sources said the TJAC is likely to back the party though it had constituted a panel to seek public opinion on whether to support the TRS, the BJP or stay neutral in Parkal.
TJAC’s support will increase the chances of the TRS winning the Parkal byelection. Sources said that if the TJAC fails to support the TRS, then YSR Congress nominee and sitting MLA Konda Surekha will gain an upper hand. Both the TRS and the BJP, members of the TJAC, have sought its support for their candidates in the Parkal Assembly constituency, leaving the TJAC, headed by Prof M. Kodandaram, in a fix.
“TJAC leaders opine that the committee, formed to focus on the Telangana agitation, was unnecessarily dragged into the electoral politics of the TRS and the BJP. It has decided to ask both the TRS and the BJP to leave and function as a non-political organisation,” said Telangana NGOs leader Vittal. Prof Kodandaram, who held a marathon meeting late last night with TNGOs leaders, Swami Goud, Vittal and others, decided to turn the organisation into a non-political one before the municipal polls.
The TJAC is finding the going tough as both the BJP and the TRS rejected its plea to ensure that only one party contests the polls in Mahbubnagar, and now, in Parkal. It fears it will face a similar situation in the forthcoming municipal elections. “A non-political TJAC can focus on the T-agitation and also freely decide whom to support if both the parties seek its support in subsequent polls,” Mr Vittal said.
Ever since the TJAC was formed with Prof Kodandaram as chairman, the committee has been pulled in various directions.
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