20 to 30 lakh names deleted deleted from electoral rolls; Cong

Congress in Telangana Monday alleged that between 20 to 30 lakh names have been deleted from the electoral rolls and said the party would work to include every eligible citizen in the voters' lists.

"The deletion of 20-30 lakh names from the electoral rolls was not incidental, but part of a conspiracy by the ruling TRS and BJP," Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee president N Uttam Kumar Reddy alleged.

Congress would not allow the conspiracy to succeed and would fight until each and every eligible citizen gets enrolled in the voters' lists, he said, speaking at Gandhi Bhavan, the state Congress headquarters here.

Reddy also alleged that the TRS government in Telangana has "crushed people's freedom".

The Congress, if elected to power in the coming assembly Assembly elections, would restore 'Dharna Chowk' (a place near Indira Park here to organise protests) as protests are not being allowed there now, Reddy said.

The Assembly elections were originally scheduled to be held simultaneously with the Lok Sabha polls next year, but the assembly was dissolved earlier this month as per a recommendation of the TRS government.

The Congress, which called upon all political and non-political forces to join forces with it to end the "misrule" of TRS, has held preliminary talks with TDP and CPI on forming a broad-based alliance to defeat the TRS.

AICC incharge of party affairs in Telangana R C Khuntia had earlier indicated that a Common Minimum Programme (CMP) could be evolved for the alliance.

Uttam Kumar Reddy, along with other party leaders, later visited party leader and ex-MLA T Jayaprakash Reddy, who was arrested in connection with a human trafficking case last week, at Chanchalguda jail here.

"Reddy has been implicated in a false case by the TRS government, the TPCC president said.

Meanwhile, Congress leader A Revanth Reddy claimed that there was a conspiracy against him as he is expected to play a key role in the party's election campaign.