TS to fill 25,000 vacancies
TRS, Congress will try to win over them to win Assembly elections in Telangana
Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao will complete four years in office on June 2.
His party, the Telangana Rashtra Samiti aims to retain power in 2019 on the back of populist schemes initiated by Mr Rao.
While power, irrigation, drinking water and agri- culture were the prime focus areas in the last four years, unemployed youth and employment generally will be the focus in the election year.
The government will issue a series of recruitment notifications to fulfill the 2014 poll promise of providing one lakh government jobs.
The state government has readied notifications to fill over 25,000 posts in June to mark State Formation Day.
Mr Rao, who will address the public from the Parade Grounds on Saturday, will announce key decisions on jobs for youth.
TRS sources said the CM is expected to announce creation of 50,000 jobs which will be filled within six months.
How the voters who backed the TD and the YSRC in 2014 will vote next year holds the key to determining if the TRS will retain power or the Congress will trump it.
In 2014, the difference in vote share between TRS and Congress was eight per cent: The TRS got 34 per cent and Congress the 26. The YSRC got eight per cent of the votes and the TD-BJP alliance 21.
The YSRC has almost disappeared from Telangana and the TD is struggling for existence. The votes polled by these two parties were against the TRS and the Congress.
The TD had won one Lok Sabha and 15 Assembly seats in 2014, and the YSRC won one Lok Sabha and 3 Assembly seats. After the TRS formed government, all the YSRC legislators and the MP joined the ruling party. From the TD, its lone MP and 12 MLAs joined the TRS.
In the last four years, the YSRC has lost ground in Telangana and concentrated only on AP. Apart from the MLAs and the MP, several prominent TD leaders have joined the TRS and the Congress.
The TD had a strong cadre which has joined other parties along with the leaders. TD leaders are not in a position to name one Assembly constituency from where they can win in the next elections.
In 2019, the fight between the TRS and the Congress is likely to be very close as indicated by the present political situation. Though they were separated by eight per cent of the votes,, the TRS won 63 seats and the Congress 21.
In Secunderabad and Khammam LS constituencies, the TD-BJP and YSRC respectively got more votes than the TRS due to people from AP.