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  • KCR confident of BRS hat-trick in Telangana with over 100 seats

    KCR confident of BRS hat-trick in Telangana with over 100 seats

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    Hyderabad: Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) President and Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao on Thursday exuded confidence that the party will retain power in the state by winning more than 100 seats in 119-member Assembly.

    Addressing the general body meeting to mark party’s formation day, he said the BRS would score a hat-trick in the Assembly elections scheduled later this year.

    “BRS won 63 seats in the first assembly election and 88 seats in the second assembly election. The BRS party will win more than 100 in the next election,” he said.

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    “Coming to power again in Telangana is not a big task. The priority is to win more seats than before,” he told the participants including ministers, MPs and state legislators.

    KCR said two leaders should also take responsibility from the government in every assembly constituency. He called for connecting with people through programmes like Palle Nidra (Night halt in villages).

    He said Zilla Parishad chairpersons, MPs and district in-charges should play the role of in-charges in the assembly constituencies where the BRS legislators are not available. The process should be completed within 3 to 4 months.

    The BRS pulled up some MLAs over complaints against them. He warned them that if they didn’t mend their ways, they would be expelled from the party.

    He asked the party leaders to take steps to reduce discontent among the cadre. He also wanted them to educate people about the government schemes, interact with them and mingle with them regularly.

    The BRS chief said that the party will reach out to masses through producing TV ads and films. He said if necessary, the party will also run a TV channel.

    Stating that in some villages, government lands are lying idle, he asked the party leaders to submit the details of such lands with survey numbers to his office. Suitable lands will be distributed to the poor to construct the houses immediately.

    KCR recalled the formation of TRS to realise the dream of Telangana people and explained its evolution as a national party BRS to fulfil the aspiration of the people of the country.

    “The achievement of Telangana state proved to the country that anything can be achieved in a parliamentary way. Now, we are moving ahead to keep the country on the path of progress with a slogan of Aab Ki Bar Kisan Sarkar,” he said.

    Referring to losses suffered by farmers due to untimely reasons, he said the agriculture department should sensitise the farmers to complete harvesting before the unseasonal rains.

    He announced that the government will purchase all crops including maize and sorghum like in the past.

    KCR said that the state government is implementing an action plan to sustain agriculture and the welfare of farmers.

    He listed out the achievements made by Telangana during the last nine years. The CM claimed that investments are flooding the state.

    He pointed out that Andhra Pradesh’s per capita income of Rs 2,19,518 is Rs 1,00,000 less than Telangana’s per capita income. The per capita income of 16 to 17 states is much less than this.

    The state registered surprising growth in every sector like electricity, roads, paddy procurement, agriculture, livestock, fisheries.

    KCR said that Telangana also tops in per capita electricity consumption.

    He slammed the Maharashtra government saying it has no vision.

    “Maharashtra government says that it will go bankrupt if it implements Telangana schemes. The Telangana state implemented the schemes successfully without going bankrupt,” he said and claimed that people of Maharashtra are visiting Telangana to see the progress of the state.

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    ( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

  • Riding on ‘Telangana model’, TRS eyes hat-trick but challenges remain

    Riding on ‘Telangana model’, TRS eyes hat-trick but challenges remain

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    Hyderabad: Two decades after it was floated by K Chandrasekhar Rao to revive the Telangana movement, the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) turned a new chapter last month by being renamed the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS).

    Projecting the Telangana model of development before the country, BRS is looking to expand to other states.

    KCR has succeeded in making the country take note of the Telangana model and is now pitching an alternate agenda before the nation.

    Aiming to play a key role in national politics, KCR looks to expand the party’s base to other states. In less than a month, BRS managed to attract a few leaders from other parties in Andhra Pradesh and Odisha.

    While the 2024 Lok Sabha elections will be the target of the BRS, its immediate goal will be to retain power in its stronghold Telangana.

    Political observers believe that the emergence of the BJP as a key force with two wins in Assembly by-elections has put pressure on the BRS.

    According to K. Nageshwar, after the BJP’s victory in two Assembly by-elections (Dubbak in 2020 and Huzurabad in 2021) and its good show in the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation, the BRS is under pressure.

    “Because the Congress was weakening, BRS thought it would have no opposition. Interestingly enough, they got a new opponent and a strong opponent in the form of the BJP,” said Nageshwar.

    KCR, as Rao is popularly known, succeeded in claiming credit for achieving the goal of a separate state by winning the public mandate in 2014. In the elections held just before formal bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh, TRS won 63 seats in the 119-member Telangana Assembly.

    KCR consolidated the party by attracting leaders and legislators to the TRS. Though the TRS won a huge mandate by bagging 88 seats in 2018, KCR made about a dozen MLAs from the Congress to defect to the TRS. A few legislators from other parties also switched loyalties to take the TRS tally to a whopping 103. He virtually decimated the Congress party but political observers believe that by doing so KCR indirectly helped the BJP to occupy that space.

    However, unfazed by the BJP gaining strength, KCR is confident that the BRS will win the next elections hands down. The chief minister said all the surveys he had commissioned gave a favourable report about the BRS. “In the December 2018 elections, our party won 88 assembly seats. This time, the number will go up to 95. We are going to come back to power for the third consecutive time,” he told a meeting of party leaders recently.

    His son and BRS working president K. T. Rama Rao believes that KCR will become South India’s first chief minister to assume the post for the third consecutive time.

    The TRS in recent months witnessed infighting in some districts. Rama Rao, however, downplayed the infighting between the party leaders terming it as an indication of strong leadership and people’s acceptance of the party.

    KTR believes that none of the Opposition parties are strong enough to compete with TRS in all the constituencies. “Neither the Congress nor the BJP has a strong presence in most of the constituencies. Hence, it is not sensible to name one of them as our main opponent,” he said in a recent media interaction.

    Despite the bravado displayed by the BRS leaders, challenges remain for the party. The opposition parties are mounting an attack over the promises it failed to keep.

    Family rule, corruption and the state’s huge debt burden are the issues being raised by the BJP and other opposition parties.

    An alliance among like-minded opposition parties may add to the problems for KCR and his party. With elections still 10-11 months away, new political formations and permutations may make the poll scenario in Telangana more complex.

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    ( With inputs from www.siasat.com )