Video Producer: Anubhav Mishra
As Telangana gears up for Assembly polls, scheduled on 7 December, the state is witnessing election campaigns in full swing. The election frenzy has kicked in and parties are using unique ways to woo the voters. An independent candidate in Telangana displayed a unique strategy by handing out slippers to voters.
In a rare strategy to woo voters, Akula Hanumanth, an independent candidate from Koratla, Telangana is handing out slippers while campaigning for the upcoming Assembly polls.
During his door-to-door campaign, he was seen giving slippers to the voters and telling them they were free to hit him with the slippers if he fails to deliver the promises made after being elected.
Hanumanth also handed out a post-dated resignation letter to indicate that the people have the right to take action against him if he doesn’t work well.
The campaign video from Jatial district, over 180 kilometres from Hyderabad, shows that the candidate hands voters slippers, while asking them to vote for him. Further, he urges them to beat him with those slippers in case he fails to deliver if and when he is elected to power.
Akula Hanumanth is contesting against the ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) candidate K Vidya Sagar Rao who in the past has won the Korutla seat three times consecutively. As Telangana is poll-bound, a total of 1,824 candidates will be contesting for 119 constituencies on 7 December.
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