Even as the upcoming elections to the Telangana state Assembly have triggered internal rifts within political parties on bagging tickets, perhaps the strongest candidature has come from none other than Billa Sudheer Reddy of the Indian National Congress.
While lawmaker hopefuls in relatively less corrupt parts of the world may have their future decided by past performance as legislators or social workers, Sudheer Reddy makes it very clear that he has one merit that entitles him a ticket to contest the elections – being a renowned ‘rowdy sheeter’, that is, a person with a criminal record.