The family of the former TDP MLA has considerable influence in three Assembly segments of the erstwhile Mahabubnagar district.
Telangana Congress chief Revanth Reddy welcoming former MLA Seetha Dayakar to the party. (X)
In a significant boost to the Congress, former TDP MLA Seetha Dayakar Reddy, who represented Devarakadra in the erstwhile Mahabubnagar district, officially joined the party’s ranks in Hyderabad on Monday, 11 September.
She arrived at Gandhi Bhavan accompanied by her two sons, Siddarth Reddy and Karthik Reddy, along with a group of supporters. She was welcomed into the grand old party by Telangana Congress in-charge, Manikrao Thakre, who presented her the party’s shawl.
Congress state unit president A Revanth Reddy, who also hails from the same district, played a pivotal role in encouraging her to join the party.
Seetha Dayakar Reddy is the widow of Kothakota Dayakar Reddy, who passed away in June this year after a prolonged illness.
Both Dayakar Reddy and his wife Seetha have significant influence in the Devarakadra, Makthal, and Narayanpet Assembly segments of the district.
Both of them were previously elected to the Assembly on TDP tickets. As Revanth Reddy was also in the TDP once, he reached out to her and extended an invitation to join the Congress.
Dayakar Reddy won elections to the Assembly from Amarchinta in 1994 and from Makthal in 1999 on the TDP ticket. His wife, Seetha, served as Zilla Parishad chairperson in 2002 and later won the election to the Assembly from the newly-created Devarakadra constituency in 2009.
It was during this election that both husband and wife made history by entering the Assembly together.
After Seetha’s admission to the party, Revanth Reddy lashed out at Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao for neglecting the district that had previously sent him to the Lok Sabha in 2009, despite having no cadre support at the time.
He recalled how, on the advice of TDP chief N Chandrababu Naidu, he and others had supported KCR’s election victory as at that time both the TRS and TDP were part of an electoral alliance.
Unfortunately, Mahabubnagar received little in return, and the hardships faced by the people in the district continued to mount, Revanth Reddy said.
Revanth Reddy also pointed out that KCR had promised to sell his house in Jubilee Hills and use the proceeds to construct homes for those who had lost everything in Alampur during the unprecedented floods in October 2009 — but he did not keep his word.
The Congress chief slammed the chief minister for portraying as if he was going to commission the entire project of Palamuru Rangareddy Lift Irrigation Scheme, or PRLIS, on 16 September, when only one-third of the project has been completed so far.
Only one of the 31 pumps of the project has been set up so far, and to claim that he was opening PRLIS amounted to misleading the people, Reddy said.
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