The seat sharing among the partners of Maha Kootami or grand alliance of opposition parties in Telangana continues to be an unending saga.
While the Telugu Desam Party is maintaining utmost restraint despite its own reservations on seat sharing, the Telangana Jana Samithi and the Communist Party of India have been bringing pressure on the Congress party to settle the issue at the earliest. But the Congress is taking its own sweet time to decide the seats to be shared with the allies.
Now, according to senior Congress leader K Jana Reddy, a clear picture regarding seat sharing would emerge only by November 8 or 9, even as leaders of alliance partners had a meeting in Hyderabad to end the deadlock on seat sharing.
A source in the Congress party said there is a strong reason behind delaying the seat sharing, which was conveyed even to the alliance partners.
“You know, there are more than two or even a dozen aspirants for each seat. If the list is announced now, the Telangana Rashtra Samithi would immediately lure the disgruntled leaders with money and promises and that will create a big trouble for the Congress,” he said.
The party has now set up a counselling cell to deal with prospective rebels.
“Especially in seats to be allocated to the alliance partners, there is a stiff competition. We need to mentally prepare the aspirants to make sacrifices. We have deployed senior leaders to talk to the disgruntled leaders and convince them to stay back in the party. Hence, the delay,” the party leader said.
