This story is from October 19, 2021

No stopping Srikanth, sixth election in last three years

No stopping Srikanth, sixth election in last three years
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.
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Sushil Rao is Editor-Special Reports, at The Times of India, Hyderabad. He began his journalism career at the age of 20 in 1988. He is a gold medalist in journalism from the Department of Communication and Journalism, Arts College, Osmania University, Hyderabad from where he did his post-graduation from. He has been with The Times of India’s Hyderabad edition since its launch in 2000. He has also done an introductory course in film studies from the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune, and also from the Central University of Kerala equipping himself with the knowledge of filmmaking for film criticism. He has authored four books. In his career spanning 34 years, he has worked for five newspapers and has also done television reporting. He was also a web journalist during internet’s infancy in the mid 1990s in India. He covers defence, politics, diaspora, innovation, administration, the film industry, Hyderabad city and Telangana state, and human interest stories. He is also a podcaster, blogger, does video reporting and makes documentaries.

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