Hyderabad: Poll battle-hardened
Srikanth Siliveri of Jammikunta has entered electoral fray yet again. This would be Srikanth’s sixth election in last three years.
It was on the very first occasion during the 2018 assembly polls that he realised how it was not easy to be in the fray. “My mother was scared. There was pressure from everywhere. For her sake, I withdrew from the contest,” he recalls.
Srikanth says he loathes the functioning of the major political parties which, he said, work for their own ends.
“Education and health facilities are what I seek to provide to the people of my constituency,” he says. Srikanth has got the ‘chapati roller’ (rolling pin) as his symbol — for which he had to fight with the election officials.
Bandaru Nagaraju, who entered the electoral fray as an independent candidate in Dubbak by-election last year, came fourth by bagging 3,570 votes. Nagaraju’s symbol was rolling pin, which looked similar to TRS’ car. “I am not looking for votes which people may cast out of confusion between the symbols,” he says.