BJP leaders have intensified their efforts to contest the upcoming by-election to the Jubilee Hills constituency. Speculations have started that Vijayalakshmi, the daughter of senior BJP leader and former Governor Bandaru Dattatreya, may get a chance. She contested from the Musheerabad constituency in the 2023 general elections.
There was a lot of publicity that Dattatreya, who was the Governor at that time, also tried his best. However, since she was not given a ticket then, there is a lot of publicity that Dattatreya has requested the party’s national leadership to give her a ticket to contest at least in the by-election now.
During the last assembly elections, it was reported that Union Minister Kishan Reddy and OBC Morcha President Dr. K Laxman had jointly prevented her from getting a seat.
Moreover, even after Dattatreya personally called, neither of them picked up the phone for over 10 days. And the two of them together gave the seat to a person who had no connection with the party, and that person could not make any impact, which led to severe criticism in party circles.
There is a campaign that injustice is being done to BCs by giving the Secunderabad seat Dattatreha represents to Kishan Reddy, who lost the assembly elections, and inducting him into the Union cabinet.
Moreover, the removal of BC leader Bandi Sanjay Kumar, who was the state BJP president, and the appointment of Kishan Reddy, and the selection of N Ramachandra Rao after him, are the reasons why the opposition parties are criticizing the BJP’s slogan of making a BC the Chief Minister in the last assembly elections.
At such a time, the demand for selecting Vijayalakshmi, who is socially active, as a candidate is getting momentum. She was appointed as the secretary in the latest state BJP committee. Since Dattatreya belongs to the BC community, many party leaders are supporting giving Vijayalakshmi a chance to contest.
Now that the fight for BC reservations is going on, they say that it would be better to give it to Dattatreya’s daughter, who is a BC child. They say that this will be like giving it to a woman. It is learnt that Dattatreya has not sought the party leadership any favour till now.
Since the party leadership betrayed him by denying Musheerabad seat in the past to his daughter, the party circles are seeking to correct the injustice by giving Jubilee Hills seat to her. It is known that the by-election became inevitable after the death of BRS MLA Maganti Gopinath from the Jubilee Hills constituency.
