Raja Singh battles Cong, TRS candidates in Goshamahal

A firebrand BJP leader seeking a second term, candidates of the ruling TRS and Congress putting up a spirited challenge and a transgender bursting into the poll fray Goshamahal constituency in the city is truly witnessing an action-packed campaign like never before. But BJP's T Raja Singh Lodh, knowns in many quarters for his "inflammatory" speeches, said his party supporters, along with development works undertaken in the segment, would see him through in the December seven Assembly polls.

Singh, who faces over 40 cases, mostly for "hate speeches," had defeated senior Congress leader and former Minister M Mukesh Goud in the 2014 Assembly polls by an impressive margin of over 45,000 votes.

Raja Singh is again challenged by Mukesh Goud, along with former legislator Prem Singh Rathore of TRS and Chandramukhi M, a transgender contesting on a CPM-led Bahujan Left front or BLF ticket.

Raja Singh said, "the voters have already decided 100 per cent that they will vote for BJP."
I am only against MIM not against Muslims."
Rubbishing the claims on development works by Raja Singh Goud said, "you see the works I did (during his previous stint as a legislator and as a minister) and evaluate."
Noting that he built community halls, schools, houses, took up road widening works, borewells in the constituency, Rathore said, "I stayed with the people every time, whenever they needed."
"If elected, I will focus on the problem of child labour, which is prevalent in the constituency, and also ensure that housing scheme for the poor is properly implemented."