PNS|Hyderabad
Hyderabad District Congress Committee (DCC) president Sameer Waliullah on Wednesday announced that the committee has initiated the process to prepare a declaration for the Old City of Hyderabad covering various issues.
Sameer Waliullah announced at a media conference at Gandhi Bhavan in Hyderabad, along with TPCC vice-president and Hyderabad In-charge Pushpa Leela, TPCC spokesperson Syed Nizamuddin, and other leaders.
He said that the Congress party has gained a lot of strength in the Old City of Hyderabad in recent years. “Unlike in the past, when the party used to struggle to find candidates for the Assembly elections, this time there has been a huge rush of candidates from the Old City.
More than 50 applications were received from Charminar, Yakutpura, Chandrayangutta, Bahadurpura, and Malakpet constituencies. There is a lot of competition for the party ticket and all the aspirants are strong,” he said.
Sameer Waliullah said that the Assembly elections in the Old City would be different from the past. He said that the Congress party would force all political parties to discuss public issues. “The MIM and BJP parties have been winning from the Old City for a long time. Both are secret allies and they have been cheating the people through the politics of communalism and polarization,” he alleged.
He pointed out that the MIM has been winning the Assembly elections in the Old City since 1969. People elected MIM and BJP candidates in the Municipal elections of 1981, 2000, 2004, 2009, 2016, and 2020. The MIM has been winning the Hyderabad Lok Sabha seats since 1984. Seven out of six Assembly seats in Hyderabad Lok Sabha seat were won by MIM and another seat (Goshamahal) is held by BJP.
However, he said MIM and BJP leaders were able to get votes by delivering hate speeches and they never displayed any seriousness in resolving the problems being faced by the people.
“The Congress party has decided to set a new agenda for the Old City in the coming Assembly elections. We will come up with promises to resolve the problems of illiteracy, unemployment, lack of development, civic amenities, public health, rising crime rate, housing for the poor, police harassment, Metro Rail for the Old City, and the menace of illegal financiers and other issues,” he said.
