By TwoCIrcles.net Staff Reporter,
Hyderabad: Welfare party of India Andhra Pradesh unit has made its plans clear to fight upcoming state and parliamentary elections. Party has announced the first list of candidates for 11 assembly segments and 4 parliamentary constituencies for which names are yet to be finalized.
WPI whose parent group Jamat-e-Islami was in forefront of separate Telangana movement has announced four names from the region. Kamal Akhtar from Tandur, Shafiullah Khan from Adilabad, Waseemuddin Ahmed from Karimnagar, Ameeruddin from Kotagudam.
In Muslim dominated Hyderabad WPI announced two names Syed Shafiullah Qadari from Rajendarnagar and Syed Faqaruddin from Amberpet.
From the first list Rajendarnagar has turned out to be an interesting choice where WPI will directly challenge dominant Muslim political party of the region MIM. In 2009 election MIM candidate Murlidhar Reddy got 23,300 votes from Rajendarnagar.
Party has also declared its candidates from two most Muslim populated constituencies of Rayalseema region Anantapur and Kurnool. Social Democratic Party of India has also made its plans clear for both of those constituencies an interesting showdown between WPI and SDPI will be expected.
In costal Andhra WPI will contest from three seats Gidaluru, Narsapur and Pannamaluru, in the later two constituencies WPI has announced names of two non-Muslim candidates Vijay Babu and R. Vasantha.
For parliamentary elections state unit president Malik Mothasim Khan announced fight for four Lok Sabha seats. Zaheerabad and Nizamabad from Telangana, Kurnool from Rayalseema and Machlipatnam from costal Andhra, the former three has huge concentration of Muslim population.
WPI state unit president Malik Mohtasim Khan claimed that party can make some more additions before the polls in the list of 11 assembly and 4 parliamentary seats.
But going by the track record of the party in the Karnataka and Rajasthan state elections, WPI far from increasing the list of candidates often withdraw them even after filing of nomination papers. But Andhra Pradesh unit insist that in this state it will be a different ball game due to prevailing political uncertainty since 2009 elections.
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