{"id":6718,"date":"2020-10-07T22:57:26","date_gmt":"2020-10-07T17:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.theleonews.com\/?p=6718"},"modified":"2020-10-07T23:14:29","modified_gmt":"2020-10-07T17:44:29","slug":"goodbye-to-first-citizen-status-mayor-to-fight-it-out-in-mlc-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theleonews.com\/en\/goodbye-to-first-citizen-status-mayor-to-fight-it-out-in-mlc-polls\/","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye to \u2018First Citizen\u2019 status, Mayor to fight it out in MLC polls?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Telangana Rashtra Samithi is looking for potential candidates to contest in the MLC polls being held for the Hyderabad-Ranga Reddy-Mahbubnagar and Nalgonda-Khammam-Warangal Graduate constituencies in March 2021. Though the party high command has finalized a few names, the final decision is yet to be taken. Candidates with social integration skills, popularity to attract voters are being considered. In this context, the name of Hyderabad Mayor Bonthu Rammohan is predominantly heard.<\/p>\n<p>Rammohan hails from Warangal. He has a strong connection with Hyderabad having completed his education from the city. TRS party leaders opine that the Mayor\u2019s proactive participation during the Telangana agitation and his popularity amongst the city youth, make him a good pick as the MLC candidate. As a trusted aide of CM KCR his name is expected to be in the final list.<\/p>\n<p>Though Rammohan\u2019s fine with Hyderabad, the challenge ahead is how he\u2019ll make an impact in Ranga Reddy and Mahabubnagar districts, especially overcoming social class issues as the former hails from a BC community. Now, most of the TRS MLAs in the joint Mahabubnagar district belonging to the Reddy community need to back Rammohan\u2019s candidacy, if the latter needs to win.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Rammohan isn\u2019t willing?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Close aides reveal that Rammohan is reluctant to contest in the MLC election, as it is not his place of birth nor is he acquainted with people\u2019s mentality, apart from the extensive experience of touring the districts. It will be interesting to see if Rammohan will contest or not, as a failure in the polls could spell an end to his political career.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Telangana Rashtra Samithi is looking for potential candidates to contest in the MLC polls being held for the Hyderabad-Ranga Reddy-Mahbubnagar and Nalgonda-Khammam-Warangal Graduate constituencies in March 2021. Though the party high command has finalized a few names, the final decision is yet to be taken. Candidates with social integration skills, popularity to attract voters [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6719,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[373,335,393],"tags":[1539,73,1898,1514,217],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Goodbye to \u2018First Citizen\u2019 status, Mayor to fight it out in MLC polls? - The Leo News | English News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theleonews.com\/en\/goodbye-to-first-citizen-status-mayor-to-fight-it-out-in-mlc-polls\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Goodbye to \u2018First Citizen\u2019 status, Mayor to fight it out in MLC polls? - The Leo News | English News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Telangana Rashtra Samithi is looking for potential candidates to contest in the MLC polls being held for the Hyderabad-Ranga Reddy-Mahbubnagar and Nalgonda-Khammam-Warangal Graduate constituencies in March 2021. 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