Hyderabad: The TRS will intensify ‘Operation Aakarsh’ in July to admit strong leaders from other parties with special focus on Hyderabad, Ranga Reddy, Mahbubnagar and Nalgonda districts where it is considered to be weak.
Survey results revealed by TRS president and Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao revealed that the party position was better in more than 100 out of 119 constituencies in the state, but is facing rough weather in about 40 due to non-performing MLAs. Mr Rao wants to replace these MLAs with strong leaders from other parties. For this, the next phase of operation Aakarsh has been started by admitting Congress leader Danam Nagender, who is likely to contest from Secunderabad Lok Sabha seat as TRS has no strong candidate from this seat.
The top priority for the party leadership is finding ‘winning horses’ in GHMC limits for the 2019 elections. TRS was never a force to reckon with in GHMC limits. However, after bifurcation of AP and TRS coming to power in Telangana in 2014, the fortunes of TRS have changed drastically in the city. The TRS created history by bagging 99 seats in the GHMC elections held in January 2016, the highest in GHMC history so far. In the 2014 Assembly elections, the TRS could win only 2 out of 24 Assembly seats in GHMC limits. The TRS won only Secunderabad and Malkajgiri Assembly seats.
However, with defection of TD MLAs from Kukatpally, Qutbullapur, Ibrahimpatnam, Mahes-hwaram, Rajendra-nagar, Serilingampally, Jubilee Hills, Sanathanagar and Secunderabad Canton-ment seats, the TRS strength has increased in GHMC limits.
But the recent survey found that the party needs to find new candidates in 2019 for GHMC, Mahbubnagar and Nalgonda districts, for which operation Akarsh has been launched.
The TRS is trying to induct city Congress leader Mukesh Goud and other leaders.
Congress accepts early election bait
TPCC president N. Uttam Kumar Reddy and AICC TS incharge R.C. Khuntia have acc-epted Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao’s challenge on early elections to the Assembly. They said the Congress was ready to face elections rightaway.
Speaking to mediapersons on Monday at Gandhi Bhavan, Mr Uttam Kumar Reddy said, “Whether it is May 2019 or December 2018 or today, the Congress is fully prepared to pull down the TRS’ corrupt and insensitive regime. Early polls is good news for the people as we can get rid of KCR a few months earlier”.
He said, “if Mr Rao goes to the Governor and asks him to dissolve the Assembly who will stop him?”
He said injustice had been done to the people in the last four years of the “dictatorial rule of the TRS government”. He said the people were ready to send the TRS home. He also alleged that Mr Rao was misle-ading with false surveys.
Mr Khuntia said the Congress in the state and at the Centre were ready to face early elections. He said the TRS was in a very weak condition, which was why it was admitting the Congress leaders.
He said that Mr Rao’s comment that the Con-gress was not ready for early elections was not correct. “The Congress is ready to face electio-ns whenever it comes,” Mr Khuntia said.
He alleged that the TRS was a ‘Velama party’ and was run by community leaders. He asked if it was possible that a leader from among the BCs, SCs and STs would be made TRS president. He said only the Congress gave important to BCs and weaker sections.
He said the Congress had made BC and weaker sections leaders like Mr V. Hanumantha Rao as PCC president where as in the TRS only leaders from the Velama community can get importance.
