TDP 'coverts' in rival YSRC camp - TeluguPeople.com News

VISAKHAPATNAM: With competition getting tougher with each passing day, contestants are leaving no stone unturned to ensure that their winning chances are more than their opponents and are not hesitating to spy on the movements of the latter. Both the YSRC and the TDP are deputing youth to spy the happenings in their opponent's camp.

As winning has become crucial for everyone, candidates from YSRC and TDP are employing 'coverts' in their rival camps to get inside information on strategies, electioneering and gifts being offered to the voters. The youngsters are joining the opposition parties as campaigners and sharing the inside information with their party candidates in return for handsome reward of Rs 200-500 per day.

Recently a YSRC MLA nominee in Visakhapatnam found two women coming to his party office everyday and participating in the regular campaigning. Though the two women were not known to party leaders, the latter did not object their participation as the duo seemed genuinely interested. But 10 days after, a YSRC local leader from Arilova identified them to be active workers of another party. Even as he could alert leaders, the duo fled.

Shocked by the incident, the YSRC leaders started to inquire about the antecedents of the women in their locality and found that the duo were sent by the opponent group to their camp to learn about the happenings.

'The present elections are much different than earlier ones. We are forced to entertain anyone who arrives at the party office. It has become very difficult to differentiate between our cadre and those from rival groups,' the YSRC MLA candidate said.

Following the incident, all the YSRC leaders have been alerted in all the constituencies in the region to be careful about the unknown candidates who are acting as spies.

Some of the TDP women who are posing as visitors are also attending the programmes at YSRC office and passing on information to the rival group. Interestingly, TDP leaders are claiming that they do not have such problems and have taken enough precautions to verify their campaigners.

'It is not a new strategy. In fact every candidate wish to get the information about the rival's style of campaign. In the earlier elections also the candidates send their spies to the rival campaign and get the information to counter it.

Now the trend has been changed. In the recent times, some of the youth are being deployed to get rivals 'style' of campaign,' a senior YSRC leader said.