Bandi likens MLC poll to India, Pak cricket match, draws Cong ire
He appealed to voters to support the BJP in similarly defeating Congress in the "political match"
Union Minister of State for Home Bandi Sanjay Kumar
Hyderabad: Union Minister of State for Home Bandi Sanjay Kumar on Tuesday likened the contest between the BJP and Congress in the February 27 MLC poll in Telangana to an India-Pakistan cricket match, prompting an angry reaction from the ruling party.
"Just as the Indian team fulfilled the hopes of fans in the recent Champions Trophy match, the BJP will fulfill the aspirations of teachers and graduates, who are the voters in the MLC poll," said Sanjay Kumar.
"We (BJP) are the Indian team; they (Congress) are the Pakistan team. Voters must decide now—vote for us for India's victory or vote for them if Pakistan is to win," he told reporters in Karimnagar.
Noting that India handed a humiliating defeat to Pakistan in the cricket match, he appealed to voters to support the BJP in similarly defeating Congress in the "political match". Sanjay Kumar further claimed that no Chief Minister had ever campaigned in an MLC election before.
Congress's defeat seemed imminent as CM Revanth Reddy had to address three election rallies on Monday.
