Congress Party High Command arranged a meeting on Tuesday in New Delhi to discuss the alliance of the Congress with other parties along with the strategies for the election campaign and candidate selection. The meeting was attended by senior leaders like Ghulam Nabi Azad, Ahmed Patel, Jairam Ramesh, along with leaders from the state of Kerala and Tamil Nadu to monitor the situation in poll-bound states.
As Telangana is likely to go for polls this year itself, TPCC leadership had met and discussed election strategy and alliances in the state. TPCC chief Uttam Kumar Reddy who flew to Delhi to attend the meeting said, “This is not Telangana specific meet. Along with all other poll-bound states, even situation in our state was discussed. Regarding seat sharing, initially state unit will decide, after talks with allies, and then brief High Command,” reported Indian express.
The Telangana leaders had talks regarding the alliances for the Assembly elections in which they said that they were looking to ally with parties such as TD, TJS, CPI. The AICC leaders have also inquired about the seat-sharing with the alliance parties.
R.C Khuntia, state party chief of Telangana, who attended the meeting said, “This was a preparatory meeting that was held in the AICC war room and they have verified the preparedness of the TPCC for the upcoming elections in Telangana. They have looked into the overall preparedness and the alliances with other parties”, quoted Deccan Chronicle.
The High Power Committee discussed about Telangana mainly because there are early elections for the Assembly in the State. Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee president N. Uttam Kumar Reddy attended the meeting along with the Congress Legislative Party leader K. Jana Reddy and In-charge of Telangana Congress affairs R.C. Khuntia.
With inputs from Indian Express and Deccan Chronicle