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Congress President Sonia Gandhi will address her first election rally in newly formed Telangana on Wednesday. The event will be held at Karimnagar.
The party is trying hard to take maximum political mileage out of the bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh. Karimnagar, which used to be a Congress stronghold, was the epicentre of the statehood movement. After the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) spearheaded the movement, the constituency was represented by TRS President K Chandrasekhara Rao.
Rao had won in 2004, 2006 and 2008 in the five-year period by going in for bypoll over the statehood issue.
Karimnagar has once again emerged as the prestigious seat, as the Congress and the TRS are vying with each other for taking full credit for the state formation.
To outsmart the Congress, KCR had launched his campaign a week earlier from Karimnagar.
TRS has fielded former MP Vinod Kumar, a resident of neighbouring Warangal district, from this seat. Former Union Minister Ch Vidyasagar Rao is the Bharatiya Janata Party candidate, while sitting Congress MP Ponnam Prabhakar is seeking re-election from here.
The Telugu Desam Party has tied up with the BJP in Telangana and Seemandhra.
According to the reports, AICC Vice-President Rahul Gandhi is also visiting the state on Wednesday.
