And the Rest of Andhra Votes tomorrow
posted on May 6, 2014 @ 5:08PM
The Seemandhra party bugles are quiet & tired and so are the all party leaders who have been on a back to back campaign spree for the past few days to canvass for their respective parties. The People of Rest of Andhra Pradesh will be deciding their fate as they go to vote to elect 25 members of Lok Sabha and 175 members of the Assembly on Wednesday, May 6th .
A crucial moment and whoever gets elected will go down in Indian History as the new Government after the bifurcation of the State of Andhra Pradesh. It is hardly a month away before the State ceases to be AP and will be known as Telangana and Rest of Andhra. A total of 3.67 crore voters , 333 candidates for Lok Sabha and 2241 for Assembly seats are in the fray.The main battle is between , TDP-BJP combine, Congress, Jagan’s YSRCP, JSP which is already losing its steam, and other independent candidates.
TDP’s Chandrababu Naidu has a do or die battle to win as these elections would be the deciding factor for his existence in politics. For some he seems to be the only hope for a good leadership considering his experience in the past as the Chief Minister where he governed the state for 9 years. The Congress Party leadership under Raghuveera Reddy is not an impressive contender and so are the rest of the leaders. Apart from that they are caught up in their own internal squabbles for the hot seat. Jagan’ s YSRCP is also slowly going the down trend and we have to see how his mother Vijayamma fares in the Vizag parliamentary turf . It is also reported that there is widespread distribution of money and also using the Christian card to buy votes.Apart from that Jagan and his coterie who are constantly in the radar for the numerous corruption cases which include the OMC case ,Illegal assets case and many others which will continue to haunt him could prove to be a deterrent in the polls.
May 16 will be the deciding day for Andhra Pradesh and meanwhile the Governor ESL Narasimhan has set May 15th as deadline for the officials to complete all the formalities with regard to the bifurcation of the state very diligently.