The central leadership of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is reportedly putting considerable pressure on the suspended MLA of Goshamahal, T Raja Singh.
They want him to give up his current Assembly seat and run from the Zaheerabad Lok Sabha segment in the 2024 general elections.
Insider sources suggest that the party’s leadership is planning to give the Goshamahal assembly ticket to Vikram Goud, the son of the late former minister Mukesh Goud.
In the past, Raja Singh successfully ran against Mukesh Goud who was contesting on a Congress ticket in 2014, and later with the TRS (now BRS) in 2019.
There is an understanding that the revocation of Singh’s suspension by the BJP’s top authority is being purposely delayed in order to put pressure on him to leave the Goshamahal seat and contest from Zaheerabad instead.
There are approximately 2,66,762 Scheduled Caste voters, 1,25,888 Scheduled Tribe voters, and 1,79,015 Muslim voters, accounting for about 38 percent of the total voters.
As Raja Singh recognizes that the BJP lacks sufficient backing within these specific communities, he has chosen not to put his candidacy forward for the Zaheerabad constituency.
Singh believes that under the current circumstances, achieving victory would be exceedingly unlikely.
