DS focuses on Nizamabad seat

Pradesh Congress Committee president D Srinivas, who is on a borrowed time in the present assignment, is focusing his attention on Nizamabad (Urban) Assembly seat after the doors to his Rajya Sabha entry was slammed.

Interacting with the newsmen here on  Friday, D.Srinivas said ``I am not disappointed because I was denied the Rajya Sabha ticket. I wish to bow to the  High Command’s diktats. With no other option left, DS is banking on Nizamabad bypolls from where he was upstaged by a little known BJP candidate, Yendala Laxminarayana in 2009 elections.

Though the notification for the bypolls is yet to be issued, the PCC chief is already touring the Nizamabad urban constituency extensively to wrest the seat from Laxminarayana, who quit the seat in support of separate Telangana state.

DS is interacting with the people of various divisions and holding meetings in each division. Since the by-elections are going to be held on Telangana plank, DS is trying to project himself as a strong Telangana votary.

Sources said apart from taking all sections of the party along with him, DS is concentrating on wooing the elders of various caste organisations and trading community to win their votes.