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<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"ins_instory_dv_caption sp_b\">BJP’s Komatireddy Raj Gopal Reddy said he’s confident of winning the Munugode bypoll<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><b class=\"place_cont\">Hyderabad: <\/b><\/p>\n<p>Komatireddy Raj Gopal Reddy, the BJP’s candidate in a key by-election in Telangana, has taken a swipe at the “Telangana model” that Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao, or KCR, often cites to highlight the TRS government’s achievements.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Reddy is contesting the Munugode bypoll. He contested the assembly election as a Congress candidate and won, but resigned in August and joined the BJP. This necessitated the by-election, which Mr Reddy said he is confident of winning.<\/p>\n<p>“What is the Telangana model? Land mafia, sand mafia, granite mafia, that is the Telangana model,” Mr Reddy told NDTV at his campaign event.<\/p>\n<p>“People want this election because there is no equality in the state for over three years. The government has not given a single rupee for people’s development. People elected me, it is my primary responsibility to develop this constituency,” Mr Reddy said.<\/p>\n<p>KCR’s Telangana Rashtra Samithi, or TRS, has alleged Mr Reddy joined the BJP after his family-owned company won a Rs 18,000 crore coal mining contract from the central government.<\/p>\n<p>The BJP leader denied the allegation.<\/p>\n<p>“My family business is 36 years old. The company is run by my son. It got a tender…in Coal India, a global competitive tender. They have made a big political issue out of it. But here KCR is giving a lot of contracts on nomination basis…They don’t have any proof that I have done anything wrong. Give proof, do it,” Mr Reddy said.<\/p>\n<p>He said he decided not to join the TRS – which welcomed 12 Congress MLAs in 2019 in a devastating loss for Sonia Gandhi’s party in the southern state – because KCR’s party “has no moral and ethical qualities.”<\/p>\n<p>“Why should have I joined TRS? They killed the opposition party by taking 12 MLAs. From that day onwards I never wanted to be associated with the TRS. We are a democracy, not dictatorship. Why did they take away 12 MLAs? That was the big mistake,” Mr Reddy said, adding he, however, doesn’t have any bad impression of the Congress.<\/p>\n<p>“I have respect for Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi. Thing is when we lost 12 MLAs, people lost their trust in the Congress party,” Mr Reddy told NDTV.<\/p>\n<p>Munugode is traditionally known to support the Congress party. That doesn’t bother Mr Reddy, who says the people in the constituency genuinely like him. “This is a Congress area. I got elected from the Congress. After I moved to BJP, the people who trust me also became BJP supporters,” Mr Reddy said.<\/p>\n<p>The bypoll is on November 3.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/telangana-news\/munugode-bypoll-kcr-give-proof-says-bjps-telangana-bypoll-candidate-raj-gopal-reddy-on-rs-18-000-crore-row-3477614\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] BJP’s Komatireddy Raj Gopal Reddy said he’s confident of winning the Munugode bypoll Hyderabad: Komatireddy Raj Gopal Reddy, the BJP’s candidate in a key by-election in Telangana, has taken a swipe at the “Telangana model” that Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao, or KCR, often cites to highlight the TRS government’s achievements. Mr Reddy is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":253862,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[303525,266630],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253861"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}