Reduction of tenure dampens aspirants

Telangana government has dampened the enthusiasm of aspirants for the chairman’s posts of Agriculture Market Committee by its decision to reduce tenure period to one year from earlier three years and keeping the reservation period for two years.

Already some of the aspirants were disappointment with reservations for chairman’s post as they will not fall under particular category.       

The reservations of the Market committee chairman’s post have been announced by the state government. The number of market committee also reduced to 14 from earlier 18 while amending the composition of market committee under Market committee Act.

There are total 18 agriculture market yards in the district and among them seven chairman’s posts each reserved for OCs and BCs and three for STs and one for SCs in the district.

Party sources say that state government’s move was aimed to satisfy more number of party leaders aspiring nominated posts in the coming three years and every year a new leader will become chairman of the market committee. Change of the reservation of the post for every two years will give scope for other community leaders to become the chairman.

Aspirants of the post were not happy with the state government’s move. A senior leader observed that state government’s move was aimed to keep the hopes of the aspirants alive and to satisfy the more number of leaders aspiring nominated posts and said the state government may do the same with the tenure of other nominated posts too to be filed soon in the state.

Nominated posts stir differences

The news that is making rounds in the political circles that state government is likely fill up nominated posts soon is creating differences among the leaders of TRS those were aspiring posts in the party.

Two senior TRS leaders those were aspiring nominated posts had exchanged blows after heated arguments over their eligibility for the posts recently in the Adilabad town. Now it has become talk of the district.

There was huge competition for the post of the Adilabad Market committee and leaders divided into two groups and intensified their effort to grab the post and there was infighting of then post among the party leaders.

It is learnt that, Jogu Ramanna took the senior TRS leader involved in the fighti9ng with him to Kerala tour to pacify him and subside the incident just after the incident took place.                

Cold war divides TRS cadre