Telangana: Congress doesn’t stand a chance in bypoll, says Komatireddy Venkat Reddy in viral tape

Ch Sushil Rao / TNN / Updated: Oct 23, 2022, 10:19 IST

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Even before the dust settles on a purported audio clip of Congress MP Komatireddy Venkat Reddy in which he was allegedly heard asking a party worker to canvass for his younger brother K Raj Gopal Reddy who is the BJP candidate in Munugode, another video surfaced online on Friday in which

Komatireddy Venkat Reddy

HYDERABAD: Even before the dust settles on a purported audio clip of Congress MP Komatireddy Venkat Reddy in which he was allegedly heard asking a party worker to canvass for his younger brother K Raj Gopal Reddy who is the BJP candidate in Munugode, another video surfaced online on Friday in which the Bhuvanagiri MP was allegedly seen telling a group of people that Congress candidate Palvai Sravanthi does not stand a chance of winning the November 3 bypoll.
In the video, Venkat Reddy was allegedly heard saying that if he campaigned for the Congress candidate, it might fetch another 10,000 votes but there was no chance of the candidate coasting to victory. In the video, Venkat Reddy was seen engaged in a casual conversation with Telugu community people in Melbourne, Australia, when they came to receive him at the airport.
He also talked about money power reigning in Munugode bypoll during his conversation with the group. “What can we do if two ruling parties are in the election fray. The Congress is not in a position to put money into the campaign,” he was heard as saying.
Venkat Reddy has stayed away from directly campaigning either for the Congress candidate or his brother who quit Congress to fight the by-election on a BJP ticket.

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Ch Sushil Rao

Sushil Rao is Editor-Special Reports, at The Times of India, Hyderabad. He began his journalism career at the age of 20 in 1988. He is a gold medalist in journalism from the Department of Communication and Journalism, Arts College, Osmania University, Hyderabad from where he did his post-graduation from. He has been with The Times of India’s Hyderabad edition since its launch in 2000. He has also done an introductory course in film studies from the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune, and also from the Central University of Kerala equipping himself with the knowledge of filmmaking for film criticism. He has authored four books. In his career spanning 34 years, he has worked for five newspapers and has also done television reporting. He was also a web journalist during internet’s infancy in the mid 1990s in India. He covers defence, politics, diaspora, innovation, administration, the film industry, Hyderabad city and Telangana state, and human interest stories. He is also a podcaster, blogger, does video reporting and makes documentaries.

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