Coop poll process under Cong, TDP assault

Hyderabad, Jan 25, 2013: Making a mockery of the election process set in motion for the Cooperative society polls and fearing defeat at the hands of the YSR Congress Party, both Congress and TDP have been resorting to a series of unethical measures to rig the elections.

In an all out assault on the cooperative system, the two parties, which are in cahoots with each other, are unleashing a wave of terror on the YSRCP candidates with the support of the officials. In most of the places, they are putting up combined candidates to defeat YSRCP-supported candidates.

While at some places the names of the voters supporting YSR Congress are being removed from the lists, officials are helping the two parties by rejecting the nominations of YSRCP candidates in some of the societies.

YSR Congress Party leader Kotamreddy Sridhar Reddy alleged in Nellore that officials, acting under pressure from Minister Anam Ramanarayana Reddy’s brother Anam Vijayakumar, have rejected several nominations of YSRCP candidates.

In another instance, YSRCP candidate’s nomination was rejected by the officials at Jonnalagadda in Narsaraopet Mandalam of Guntur district. Mild tension prevailed in the village with YSRCP leaders questioning the rejection and arguing with the officials.

YSRCP leaders found 300 names of the party’s supporters missing from the voters’ lists in several villages of Byragipatteda single window cooperative society in Tirupati rural Mandalam of Chittor district. Later they lodged a complaint with the officials. Elsewhere in the district, officials postponed elections to 11 societies with the fear of losing polls to YSRCP. Both TDP and Congress are acting at the behest of each other in these places.

In several districts including East Godavari, YSR, Khammam and Sri PSR Nellore, the candidates of either TDP or Congress are contesting to ensure the defeat of YSRCP candidates.