Telangana Caretaker Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhara Rao told his cabinet ministers that the December elections in the state would be favourable to their Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS).
KCR discussed the issue of early election and required poll strategies with senior leaders after the Election Commission of India announced the poll schedule for the five states including Telangana.
He said the poll schedule came out as per his expectations and now the party leaders should begin giving major focus to poll preparations in all the districts and on how to go about intensifying campaign by holding public meetings to cover every assembly segment.
TRS has already announced names of its candidates for 105 out of the total 119 segments. The names for remaining 14 segments will be announced in three to four days.
While TRS is marching ahead in high speed, Congress and its Mahakutami (Grand Alliance) partners are still struggling to reach an agreement on seat sharing and finalisation of contesting candidates.
Congress leaders like Revanth Reddy and DK Aruna are hogging limelight by attacking KCR in strong language but that was not enough as there were issues like seat adjustments and also that of Telangana Jana Samithi (TJS) led by activist Kodandaram seeking more seats.
Some leaders like Marri Sasidhar Reddy have complained against irregularities in preparation of voter lists by TRS leaders in Hyderabad and other places and the issue was raised before the court. It showed the anxiety and unpreparedness of Congress to make a full-fledged attack on TRS.
Moreover, AP CM Chandrababu’s announcement that his party may be called a part of Mahakutami and not to be termed as an ally of Congress came as a disheartening news for Grand Alliance. Chandrababu has also ruled out possible alliance with Congress in AP in 2019 elections.
Seeing all this, analysts feel that the Mahakutami is all likely to face more serious problems in coming days.
Obviously, KCR is giving one blow after another to rivals by coming out with his surprise strategies.
G. RaviKiran
