HYDERABAD: The Telangana Joint Action Committee (TJAC) is in a dilemma over extending support to its constituents from among the political parties - the TRS and the BJP - in the local body elections. As the TJAC is yet to make up its mind, it could not hold the meeting on Tuesday as scheduled to finalise the future course of action.According to sources, the state government wants the process for local body elections to begin in July all over the state. It may be recalled that the TJAC took an active part in the byelections for 12 Assembly seats in Telangana region last year in which the Congress and TDP candidates lost their deposits.The TRS and the BJP are the main political parties in the TJAC and it is expected to take a call on whether or not to support them in the local body elections. There are dissenting voices in the TJAC on whether the parties committed to Telangana cause should fight the elections for electoral gains when the issue of achieving separate statehood is itself at stake.TRS is keen on contesting and winning as many local bodies as possible since it wants to emerge as an electoral power in the state while fighting for the Telangana cause at the same time.Its line of argument is that if the TDP and the Congress are given a burial in the election, achieving Telangana would become easier since they are the only stumbling blocks for Telangana, one TRS leader opined.TRS, the main constituent of the TJAC, is against admitting Congress and TDP into it. It has set a condition that if they want to join the TJAC, the MLAs and MPs should first resign.TRS is reportedly forcing the TJAC to support the parties in the local body elections just as it did in the by-elections for 12 Assembly seats in Telangana region last year. But other constituents of the TJAC think it otherwise. They take exception to the TRS’ unilateral attitude and its chief K Chandrasekhar Rao finalising the TJAC agenda all the time. They want the TJAC to act independently by taking the opinions of all partners.“The TRS chief is totally opposed to the Million March but we conducted it. Even now, we should be able to take an independent decision on whether to support the TRS and the BJP in the local body elections,’’ a representative of a TJAC constituent told Express.TJAC chairman professor M Kodandaram said that Tuesday’s meeting was postponed because of technical reasons. “Very soon TJAC would meet and discuss all the issues including local body elections,’’ he said.Meanwhile, Chandrasekhar Rao has begun consultations with his party colleagues on the strategies for the local body elections.
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