Hyderabad: The Centre on Monday, April 8, provided the ‘Y+’ category security of CRPF to Madhavi Latha, Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate from Hyderabad Lok Sabha seat.
She has been provided the security cover only for Telangana, sources told ANI.
The saffron party nominated her from the Hyderabad seat, as a challenger to AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi, who has been winning from the seat since 2004.
He has maintained a stronghold in Hyderabad politics, succeeding his father, Sultan Salahuddin Owaisi, who held the seat from 1984 to 2004.
Asaduddin Owaisi has been the Member of Parliament for Hyderabad since 2004, consistently winning with significant victory margins. In the 2019 General Election, he secured a massive victory, defeating the BJP candidate by a margin of 2.82 lakh votes.
On Sunday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has expressed support for Madhavi Latha, the BJP’s candidate for the Hyderabad Lok Sabha constituency, who is challenging AIMIM’s Asaduddin Owaisi in his stronghold.
PM Modi praised Latha’s recent TV interview, where she predicted that Owaisi would lose the election by a margin of 1,50,000 votes. The BJP announced her candidature from Hyderabad in its first list of 195 candidates.
She accused AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi of having 6,20,000 bogus votes in the Hyderabad constituency.
She claimed that if one checks the EC website, they may find the same voter ID in two places, particularly in the Charminar area where Owaisi allegedly has 1,60,000 bogus votes.
In a recent interview with India TV, Latha hailed PM Modi’s “transparent politics” and called him the ‘Maha Yogi’ of this age.
She also predicted the AIMIM chief’s defeat in the upcoming polls and claimed Owaisi won the elections in the past “dishonestly”.
