Race hots up for Malkajgiri - TeluguPeople.com News

Hyderabad: Malkajgiri, which boasts of a significant of middle class and educated voters, has emerged as a hot destination for all aspirants. Accounting for highest electorate in the country, it has become the most sought after Parliamentary seat for politicians of all hues, irrespective of their regional affiliations.

The latest to join the race is former Director General of Police V Dinesh Reddy. He joined YSR Congress Party today in the presence of the party president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy.

The former police boss is being fielded by the party from Malkajgiri. Already, civil servant-turned-politician Dr N Jayaprakash Narayan and academician and MLC Prof. K Nageswar have filed their nominations and launched campaign in right earnest.

The Young Turk of TDP and sitting MLA from Kodangal in Mahbubnagar district A Revanth Reddy has decided to contest from the seat. According to party sources, Revanth is likely to file his nomination papers on Tuesday, without waiting for the official announcement by his party.

With so many bigwigs entering the fray, the constituency is likely to witness high-octane battle.While JP had filed his nomination papers on Monday, Prof Nageswar filed his nomination papers on April 4.

The constituency is being represented by Sarvey Satyanarayana who is also Union Minister of State and has been renominated by the Congress party. JP held a road show in Malkajgiri constituency as part of his election campaign and appealed the residents of the constituency to vote for him.

Among the contestants, JP and Dinesh Reddy hail from Seemandhra while Nageswar and Revanth Reddy are from Telangana region. Interestingly, none of these leaders was within the limits of Malkajgiri.

What made these leaders to prefer Malkajgiri? The most important reason for this is that Malkajgiri has the distinction of having the highest number of urban educated middle class voters.

It is also one of the biggest Parliamentary constituencies in the country and was created after delimitation of constituencies in 2008 just before the last general elections. Over 80 per cent of its electors are from the urban middle class.

The constituency has a heterogeneous mix of voters. Majority of these voters are settlers from Seemadhra region. These settlers are scattered across the seven assembly constituencies of Malakajgiri including: Medchal, Secunderabad Cantonment (SC), Malkajgiri, Qutbullapur, Uppal, LB Nagar and Kukatpally.

It was also evident from the fact that the Lok Satta President had won the lone seat for the party from Kukatpally assembly segment, which has a large number of Seemandhra voters.

In addition to this, the recent electoral rolls released by the election commission authorities confirmed that the segment has over 70 per cent of Seemandhra settlers. Among the settlers, most of them belong to either Dalit community, BC or Christians.

The caste equations also forced TDP to keep the seat for itself instead of leaving it to BJP as part of the alliance. The TDP leaders feel that the party president N Chandrababu Naidu has wide acceptance among Seemandhra settlers and urban middle class thanks to his pro-middle class programmes.

During the 2009 elections, the sitting MP Satyanarayana secured over 3.88 lakh votes as against total votes of 12.43 lakhs.