Hyderabad: After befriending MIM, the Telangana Rashtra Samiti is preparing ground to win respectable number of seats in elections to the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation scheduled to be held in November/ December this year.
The 2014 poll results have raised hopes of the TRS after having won three Assembly segments and one Parliament seat in the city. The TRS candidates were runners-up in nine Assembly constituencies, placed third in four and secured fourth place in eight other Assembly segments and two Parliamentary seats in Greater Hyderabad.
The vote share of the TRS jumped from 4.60 per cent in 2009 polls to 19.62 per cent in the 2014 elections. “The 2014-poll results have set the stage for the ruling party (TRS) to prepare for GHMC elections. The elected body in GHMC completes its term in November 2014. Going by the results the TRS achieved and its vote share in the city, we are sure the party top brass will cash in on the strong Telangana wave in the GHMC elections in November,” said a senior TRS leader in the city.
The confidence of TRS leaders comes from the fact that the TRS got second place in Malkajgiri Parliamentary constituency in which 40 per cent of the total 32 lakh voters are from Seemandhra.
TRS candidate Mynampalli Hanumanth Rao polled a whopping 4.94 lakh votes. A close analysis of the vote share revealed that of the nine Assembly segments in which the TRS candidates were runners-up, five segments are those that have predominantly Seemandhra population like Qutbullapur, Kukatpally, Uppal, LB Nagar and Serilingampally.
Meanwhile, the race for the ministerial berths is heating up as all three MLAs from Greater Hyderabad are lobbying to be part of the first Cabinet of Telangana state.
In a bid to strengthen the party in the capital, the TRS is likely to offer the Deputy Chief Minister post to the MLC from the city i.e. Mahmood Ali.
T. Padma Rao, who won from Secunderabad Assembly constituency, is most likely to make it to the Cabinet as he is the senior most among the three MLAs in the city, apart from being a KCR loyalist.
Another loyalist Nayani Narasimha Reddy is expected to be given a ministry or contest from Medak Parliamentary seat, to be vacated by Telangana designate Chief Minister KCR.
