Hyderabad: TRS president and caretaker Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao will be back in action after taking a three-week break for the Ganesh Chathurthi festivities
Mr Rao has restricted himself to his Pragathi Bhavan residence and farmhouse since September 7 after addressing the public meeting in Husnabad, a day after dissolving the Assembly.
Mr Rao plans to address 100 meetings in 50 days. He wants to focus on North Telangana districts in the next phase of campaigning. TRS sources said Mr Rao has utilised the three-week break to devise the campaign strategy in the wake of clarity coming over the formation of a grand alliance comprising Congress, TD, TJS, CPI and others with the single agenda of defeating the TRS.
“There was no clarity on the grand alliance when Mr Rao launched his poll campaign in Husnabad on September 7. Now that the grand alliance is certain, Mr Rao’s poll campaign would be focussed on hitting out at the Congress and TJS joining hands with the “Andhra party” TD,” sources added.
TRS whip in the Legislative Council and MLC Palla Rajeshwar Reddy said Mr Rao’s campaign from this week would heat up the political atmosphere in the state and would tear apart the unholy alliance between the Congress, TD and other parties.
Mr Rao’s election speeches would be centred around ‘Telangana self-respect’ and ‘Telangana pride’ and cautioning people that if the Congress-TD combine formed the government, the self-respect and pride of Telangana would be profferred at the feet of Delhi (Congress) and Amaravathi (Chan-drababu) rulers and the very purpose for which Telangana statehood was achieved would be defeated.
Mr Rao would also rake up issues of water-sharing asking people to think whether AP CM Chandrababu Naidu would take AP’s side or Telangana’s side, when there was allocation of water in Godavari and Krishna for the two states, which is due after the elections.
Another major poll plank of Mr Rao will be cautioning people of Telangana state that if the Congress came to power in the Centre and state, it would grant special category status to AP and if that happened, the industries would move to AP to avail special tax concessions which would result in loss of jobs for the people.
