Yadav keen to bounce back

Says TDP has always honoured its promises and delivered

T. Srinivas Yadav

HYDERABAD: Defeats are not meant forever. Having tasted it in the last elections from Secunderabad Assembly constituency, former Minister and TDP candidate, T.Srinivas Yadav is keen to bounce back.

And the task has been made that much easier by the TRS candidate T. Padma Rao himself, he says. “In the last four years, Mr. Rao did not do anything for the constituency and the electorate is really vexed up with his attitude,” he claims.

A host of factors went against him in 2004 when the TRS candidate defeated him with a 3,000-odd vote margin. Anti-incumbency, rain gods not being benevolent and the opponents misleading electorate with false promises are some of the factors, Mr. Yadav lists out for the defeat.

“People feel cheated now and issues such as inflation, bad civic amenities and short supply of drinking water are worrying them. They will vote me back for my party always honoured its promises and delivered them,” he says.

The constituency for the last four years has been stagnating in apathy, he alleges. The conditions in Addagutta, considered second largest slum in Asia, continue to deteriorate, slums remain plunged in darkness with no streetlights while amenities took a bad beating.

Contribution

From the swank new Gandhi Hospital to second vent of Oliphant Bridge, Mr. Yadav stakes his contribution and says such developmental initiatives during his tenure will come back to pay.