SO FAR, TRS BANKED ON TS SENTIMENT

‘KCR Runam Theerchu-kundaam (Repay debt to KCR)’ will be the main slogan for the TRS for the upcoming Assembly elections.

The campaign will highlight that the government has set up over 500 residential schools for BCs, SCs, STs, minorities, residential junior and degree colleges for girls and is providing `1 lakh financial assistance to perform the marriage of girls from all communities (Kalyana Laxmi, Shaadi Mubarak).

Also on the ‘runam’ list are purified water for all households through Mission Bhagiratha, disbursement of `12,000 crore to farmers every year through Rythu Bandhu, `5 lakh free life insurance to farmers, KCR Kits (each costing `12,000) for institutional deliveries in government hospitals, distribution of over 1 crore sheep to the Yadav community, thousands of new industries through TS-iPASS offering over 7 lakh jobs.

The party wants to campaign that people are indebted to Mr Rao for achieving the milestones in four years, and they can repay their debt to him by voting for the party.

So far, the TRS has banked solely on the Telangana sentiment to fetch votes in all the elections since its inception in 2001 till 2014.

After bifurcation, the party feels that it could no longer use the Telangana sentiment to gain votes in 2019 elections.

“As a ruling party which formed the first government in Telangana state, we cannot depend on Telangana sentiment any more. We can only talk about our development and welfare programmes done in our first term and seek a second term based on our performance,” a party source said.

“We want KCR to be our focal point of campaigning because he remains the most popular leader in Telangana even today. There is no match to him in any other party. We want to highlight KCR with a caption 'repay debt to KCR'," the source said.

ON THE ‘RUNAM’ LIST are purified water for all households through Mission Bhagiratha, disbursement of `12,000 crore to farmers every year through Rythu Bandhu, `5 lakh free life insurance to farmers, KCR Kits (each costing `12,000) for institutional deliveries in government hospitals, thousands of new industries through TS-iPASS offering over 7 lakh jobs.