Munugode By-Election Campaign Comes To An End

BJP took out violence as its last straw to gain the upper hand in the November 3 bypoll in Munugode Assembly Constituency.

Until Tuesday, the campaigning had seen peaceful campaigning except for the acerbic exchange of charges and counter-charges between all political parties. Sunday, however, saw the scales tilting heavily towards the TRS after CM K Chandrashekhar Rao reached Bangarigadda and pulled off a verbal surgical strike on the BJP, targeting PM Modi directly tearing into the saffron party's attempts to topple the TRS government.

The CMs call to the people of Munugode to create history by helping him set the Bharat Rashtra Samithi juggernaut rolling from their constituency and calling the 4 MLAs onto the stage whom the BJP attempted to buy while declaring that the self-respect of Telangana was not on sale amidst loud cheering by the massive crowd, grabbed national headlines.

The out-and-out onslaught threw the BJP off balance. The desperation to grab the momentum reached violent levels on Tuesday when the party's workers unleashed attacks on TRS rallies, injuring several persons, including MLC Palla Rajeshwar Reddy, MLA Peddireddy Sudarshan Reddy, and Mulugu Zilla Parishad chairman Jagadish.

TRS working president KT Rama Rao censuring the BJP for its tactics. A vehicle in BJP leader Eatala Rajender's convoy was also damaged in the clashes between BJP and TRS supporters.

At 298 polling stations in the constituency, 2.41 lakh voters are expected to cast their votes on Thursday. Critical polling station number 105. There are 3,366 State police personnel and 15 companies of Central paramilitary forces deployed.