Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) has offered to withdraw from the Munugode byelection fray provided the Centre sanctions ₹18,000 crore for the development of the constituency and Nalgonda district, the amount equivalent to the reported contract work given to Komatireddy Rajgopal Reddy for resigning his MLA’s post and Congress to join Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and re-contest the election.
Campaigning for the party candidate K. Prabhakar Reddy at Koratikal village in the constituency on Monday Minister for Energy G. Jagadish Reddy threw a challenge at the BJP, its government at the Centre, to sanction ₹18,000 crore for the development of Nalgonda districts which includes Munugode constituency going for the byelection now and the party leaders from the district would convince their party president and Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao to withdraw from the fray.
He suggested that the BJP could win the byelection by sparing the amount for the development of the constituency and the district instead of giving it an individual. He alleged that the byelection was necessitated only due to the urge of the BJP to expand in Telangana and stall the development of the State.
