Kapu leaders urge NDA alliance to allocate Srikakulam ZP chairperson’s seat to community

Srikakulam Turpu Kapu Sangham leader during the emergency meeting held in Srikakulam on Friday.

Leaders of the Srikakulam Zilla Turpu Kapu Sangham have urged the Telugu Desam Party (TDP)-Jana Sena Party (JSP)-BJP alliance parties to allocate Zilla Parishad chairperson’s post to one of the Zilla Parishad Territorial Constituency (ZPTC) members of the Kapu community.

The association held an emergency meeting in Srikakulam on Friday and highlighted that the community had not been allocated the post in the last 15 years, despite its significant population in the district.

In a press release, Sangham leaders —Surangi Mohana Rao, , Dola Jaganmohana Rao, Sasapu Joginaidu— said that the Kapu community was confined to only one Assembly seat, Patapatnam, and had not got recognition from respective political parties.

Mr. Joginaidu said that it was the right to time to do justice to the Kapu community, which, was he alleged had been sidelined from Srikakulam politics following the district’s bifurcation a few years ago.

Mr. Jagan Mohana Rao said that the ZP chairperson’s post should be given to the Kapu community on a rotation basis as part of ensuring social justice to all Backward Classes (BCs) in the district. Of the 30 ZPTC seats, the alliance won 29 seats and is expected to secure the ZP chairperson’s post in the upcoming indirect election.

A delegation of Kapu community is expected to meet Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu and JSP president and Deputy Chief Minister Pawan Kalyan to press their demand and provide population details of the community in the district.