Jagan takes the plunge in GHMC electioneering

Hyderabad,Nov 20:It all started with a lot of fanfare and euphoria as Mr Y S Jaganmohan Reddy, the Lok Sabha MP from Kadapa and son of former chief minister, the late Dr YS Rajasekhar Reddy,embarking on the election campaign for the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) on Friday morning.Despite the uncertainty that dogged the Congress campaign panels in the State capital pertaining to the participation of Mr Jaganmohan Reddy or his followers,in the GHMC campaign, he made it a point to kick-start the mission by taking the blessings of his mother,Mrs Vijayalakshmi,at the Chief Minister’s Camp Office in the busy Begumpet area in the heart of Hyderabad city before he took the electoral convoy up to the life-size statue of the late Rajiv Gandhi at Somajiguda.

Having garlanded the statue of Rajiv,Mr Jagan also offered his prayers at Bangaru Mysama temple in the Lower Tank Bund Road and the Dargah at Nampally.The Home Minister,Mrs Sabita Indra Reddy,the Minister for Sports and Information Technology,Mr Komatireddy Venkat Reddy,the  Minister for Health,Mr Danam Nagenders and other party MLAs accompanied the young leader.In true inheritance of his paternal style,Mr Jagan’s campaign convoy moved on to Maheswaram constituency represented by the Home Minister, Mrs Sabita Indra Reddy,since his father late YSR ritually commenced all his electioneering from her political legion.Local candidates are surely elated with Mr Jagan joining the campaigning as a morale booster that adds value to the otherwise lacklustre strategies to woo the voters,who are already disgusted with the innumerable civic odds including bad roads,traffic snarls and stagnant sewerage systems clogging the city.

The Congress candidates are confronted with the ire of the electorate who are more vigorously lured by vows of ‘‘prompt care of the dirty roads situation’’,as the Praja Rajyam supremo,Mr Chiranjeevi,would like to phrase it out.The Bharatiya Janata Party nominees,on the other hand,are emphasizing a sure cure for the worsening underground drainage system once the party is voted to power.