The Chief Minister of Telangana, K. Chandrasekhar Rao, recently told his party legislators that he will ensure TRS victory in more than 100 assembly segments. He told them that they need not worry about their re-election and asked them to concentrate on people-centric issues and take all the government projects to the people.
“You take care of people’s needs and I will take care of your re-election in the next elections,” Rao told his party members at Pragathi Bhavan. He also said that the TRS would win 15 out of the 17 Lok Sabha seats.
Telangana has 119 assembly constituencies, with 14 constituencies reserved for Scheduled Castes candidates and 9 constituencies reserved for Scheduled Tribes candidates.
KCR held a discussion with the TRS legislature party about the appointment of committees at the village, mandal and district levels for the implementation of the special incentive of Rs 4,000 per acre per year to be provided by the government from next year.
He also requested the MLAs and others to stay in their constituencies till all the revenue records are sorted out and to promote the new flagship programme called Comprehensive Land Survey (CLS) and remove all irregularities.
The CLS programme, proposed to be launched on September 15, will be conducted till December 31. He asked them not to return to Hyderabad till their work was done. KCR is of the firm belief that cleaning the land records and giving the aid of Rs. 4,000 per acre per year would bring a positive revolution among the farmers across the state.
He also made short shrift of BJP president Amit Shah's claim that BJP would form government in 2019. KCR ridiculed the claim and said that this was the 'joke of the millennium'. For, KCR believes that no one could dethrone the TRS government because he had the support of the Telangana people, who would bring back the party to power with a thumping majority.
KCR did concede that the BJP could win five seats within the Hyderabad city limits, but added that according to a survey the BJP might lose these seats, too. Not naming the survey, KCR said that MIM would retain their seat but the Union labour minister Bandaru Dattatreya of the BJP will face a tough fight from the TRS in Secunderabad Lok Sabha constituency, even as Congress would lose its two Lok Sabha seats and TDP its one single seat.
KCR seems to believe that if the parliament passes an amendment, there can be an increase in the number of assembly seats from 119 to become a humongous 153, thus giving a number of hopefuls plenty of chance to contest and win elections.
