Hyderabad: The post-mortem over the less-than-expected turn out of people at the Telangana Rashtra Samithi's Kongara Kalan meeting revealed that leaders did not properly utilise the financial resources extended by the party.
TRS sources say the party leadership had allotted Rs 40 lakh to each Assembly constituency to mobilise a total of 25 lakh people. According to intelligence reports, just about five lakh people turned up at Kongara Kalan, though party leaders put the figure at 10 lakh.
The party leadership received complaints that the funds did not reach the ground level to pay for the travel and other expenses get people to attend the meet.
In Secunderabad Assembly constituency, local TRS leaders complained that Rs 8 lakh given by minister Padma Rao Goud was not spent by TRS ward-level leaders.
Similar complaints came in from Ranga Reddy, Nalgonda, Mahabubnagar and Medak districts from where the party expected two lakh people but did not get even 50,000.
The party leadership has decided to issue a stern warning and initiate action against leaders who failed to deliver even after getting financial assistance from the party.
Intelligence officials were pressed into service at all the toll plazas in the districts to note down the number of vehicles headed to Hyderabad for the public meeting. They also noted down the number of persons each vehicle was carrying.
These reports were submitted to party chief and Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao. The CM also obtained figures on vehicles and people from party leaders Assembly constituency-wise.
When both these reports were analysed, huge variation was found in the figures, exposing how TRS leaders exaggerated figures to please the party high command.
The analysis also found that some leaders did not bother to spend the funds given by the party because the CM has promised tickets to all the sitting MLAs for the coming elections. The disgruntled aspirants thus sat idle and did not use the money allotted knowing that they would anyway not get tickets.
There are three-four such contenders for all the seats. The dissidence is even more in seats where MLAs from other parties defected to the TRS, thus denying the old TRS leaders a chance to contest.
