Modi, other leaders descend on poll-bound Telangana

With only five days left before campaigning ends in Telangana’s assembly election, the major parties are going all out in a last ditch bid to woo voters.

While Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to address a mammoth rally in Hyderabad tomorrow, Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao, the star campaigner of the ruling Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS), is scheduled to address a big election rally at Secunderabad Parade Grounds today.

Apart from Modi, the president of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Amit Shah, and several union ministers and top party leaders, were also visiting different parts of the state to canvass support.

Meanwhile the People’s Front alliance, led by the Congress party, was also not leaving any stone unturned.

Happy with the enthusiastic response to Sonia Gandhi’s maiden election meeting at Medchal last week, the party has decided to utilise her services one more time.

She will take part in the campaign and address meeting at different places in the state on December 5, the last day of the campaign.

Before that, Congress president Rahul Gandhi is expected to address election meetings in Tandur and Gadwal while former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will also address the meetings in Hyderabad and other places.

Apart from Sonia and Rahul, the Congress party has also fielded many important leaders including leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha Malikarjun Kharge, party general secretary Ghulam Nabi Azad Punjab Minister Navjot Singh Siddhu and the former Indian cricket captain Mohammad Azharuddin.

While the burden of the campaigning for the TRS was largely carried by the caretaker chief minister and party supremo K. Chandrasekhar Rao, who addressed up tofour meetings per day, and his son and minister K. Taraka Rama Rao, at the last minute the party has also decided to press into service minister T. Harish Rao.