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Hyderabad, Oct 10 (IANS) After former MP and Congress leader Anjan Kumar Yadav openly expressed his displeasure over not being made a candidate for the Jubilee Hills Assembly by-election, party state in-charge Meenakshi Natarajan visited his house on Friday to pacify him.
Along with party secretary PC Vishnunath, Backward Class Welfare Minister Ponnam Prabhakar and Labor Minister G Vivek, he met the former Secunderabad MP.
Meenakshi Natarajan intervened to pacify Naveen Yadav after he expressed his unhappiness over the party leadership ignoring him to field Naveen Yadav as a candidate for the November 11 by-election for the Jubilee Hills assembly constituency.
Anjan Kumar Yadav was elected to the Lok Sabha from Secunderabad in 2004 and 2009 but lost in the 2014 and 2019 elections. He unsuccessfully contested for the Assembly from Musheerabad constituency in the 2023 elections.
His son Anil Kumar Yadav was made Rajya Sabha member from MLA quota last year.
The former MP was one of the strong contenders for the Jubilee Hills ticket, but the party ignored his claim citing his defeat in Musheerabad and the nomination of his son to the Rajya Sabha.
Ponnam Prabhakar, who is the minister in-charge of Hyderabad, also raised the issue of local versus non-local representation and the principle of ‘one ticket and one designation per family’ to defend the party’s decision.
This angered Anjan Kumar Yadav, who called on Irrigation Minister N. Uttam Kumar Reddy and his wife N. Gave the example of Padmavati, Komatireddy brothers, Deputy Chief Minister Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka and his brother MP Mallu Ravi.
The former MP also said that he would soon reveal the names of the leaders who prevented him from getting the ticket for the Jubilee Hills by-election.
Jubilee Hills is one of the assembly constituencies of Secunderabad Lok Sabha constituency, and Anjan Kumar Yadav claims that he enjoys good support from different sections of voters.
Anjan Kumar Yadav is unhappy with the fact that the party leadership announced the candidate without consulting him.
The Congress party declared Naveen Yadav as its candidate for the Jubilee Hills by-election on 8 October.
Anjan Kumar Yadav and other party contenders are troubled by this. He questioned the party’s choice as Naveen Yadav had joined Congress only in 2023.
Naveen Yadav had contested Jubilee Hills as an All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) candidate in 2014, but lost to BRS’s Maganti Gopinath by 9,242 votes. In 2018, Naveen Yadav contested the election as an independent and stood third.
–IANS
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