TRS ahead of rivals as campaigning picks up
HYDERABAD: Fresh from its landslide victory in the December 2018 Assembly elections, a confident Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) is ahead of its rivals as the campaigning is picking up for the coming Lok Sabha polls.
Though the main contenders are yet to announce their candidates, the ruling party has had a head start with its Working President KT Rama Rao addressing a series of preparatory meetings in the parliamentary constituencies over the last four days.
Popularly known as KTR, he addressed meetings of party leaders and workers in seven constituencies. In every constituency, he addressed more than 15,000 workers and made a night halt in few to discuss the poll strategy with party leaders.
TRS, which won 88 seats in 119-member Assembly in the Dec.7 elections, seems to have an edge over the opposition Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), whose cadres were demoralised by the humiliating defeat.
Entrusted with key responsibility by his father and Chief Minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao, KTR looks determined to achieve his target of 16 out of 17 Lok Sabha seats, leaving Hyderabad for ally Majlis-e-itehadul Muslimeen (MIM).
At every meeting, KTR is explaining what 16 seats would mean to Telangana and the TRS. Predicting that both the NDA and Congress would be in no position to form the government at the Centre, he is urging people to ensure victory of all TRS candidates so that the party can play a crucial role in the formation of the next government at the Centre.
KTR is confident that Chandrashekhar Rao, as leader of the Federal Front comprising TRS and other regional parties, would decide who would be the next Prime Minister.
He is promising that the Front would bring a qualitative change in the national politics as both the Congress and BJP have failed to deliver.
Stating that Telangana has already emerged as a model for the entire country with its innovative welfare and development schemes, KTR hopes that the same could be replicated across the country.