Is KCR's inauguration spree a sign of early polls in TS?
The buzz in the political circles is that KCR may go for early elections to avoid any risk of Assembly elections being clubbed with 2024 Lok Sabha polls
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Hyderabad: Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao is likely to go for early elections, if a series of inaugurations, laying of foundation stones for new projects and filling up of vacancies in government departments are any indications.
Though the Assembly elections in the State are scheduled towards the end of 2023, indications are that Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS), the new name adopted by the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS), will advance the polls by six months.
Though KCR has been saying publicly that the polls will be held as scheduled, the buzz in the political circles is that he may go for early elections to avoid any risk of Assembly elections being clubbed with 2024 Lok Sabha polls.
The chief minister is visiting different parts of the State to inaugurate new buildings of district collectorates and party offices and using the occasion to address public meetings. Last week, he visited Mahbubnagar and Jagtiyal districts to inaugurate offices of new integrated collectorate complexes. The tone and tenor of his speeches highlighting the achievements of his government during the last eight years and the attack on BJP over its failures hint that he is gearing up for early polls.
At the public meetings, KCR explained to people the transformation brought by his government in sectors like energy, irrigation and agriculture, the tremendous growth witnessed by the State in terms of SGDP and per capita income and claimed that with a plethora of schemes under implementation for the wellbeing of farmers and various sections of society, Telangana has no competition in welfare.
The BRS leader also used the occasion to launch a tirade against the Narendra Modi government at the Centre for what he called its discrimination towards Telangana, impediments being created for the State's developments by not releasing funds, lack of sanction of any new project to the State and the commitments made to Telangana in Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act not being honoured.
KCR is not missing the opportunity to hit out at the Modi government for what he called toppling democratically elected governments in various States.
