Real Strength Of TRS

REAL STRENGTH OF TRS

Real Strength Of TRS

Despite best efforts of TRS to gain the political mileage of Telangana state formation, the reality is otherwise.

Hyderabad: The big claims of TRS about its strength are proved to be baseless. The party denied alliance with the congress and faced the elections on its own.

During the election campaign, the party leaders including its chief KCR left no stone unturned to criticize the congress leaders (both local as well as national). The visitors from congress high command at Delhi also made harsh comments against the TRS and its chief KCR.

The real strength of TRS came to knowledge of KCR when he tried to visit OU during one of his public meetings in connection with election campaign. The OU has contributed its best to the T-movement in the form unstinted support from students of OU. The OU Students JAC also did lot of activities in support of T-bill.

Despite the best support from OU, TRS could not provide political support to this segment in terms of ticket allocation in the general elections. The party chief KCR was forced to face the ire of the student of OU. KCR was at OU for a short while on his way to public meeting at Chilkalguda.

OU students (numbering around 2000) gheraoed the TRS chief and gave slogans ‘KCR go back’. Their ire was in connection with KCR’s poll promise to regularize the services of contract lecturers as this step would block the fresh recruitments for a period of further 10 years.

With the OU incident, (OU being one of the strongest supporters of TRS), the party came to know the real strength of the party. Despite best efforts by TRS activists to reduce the poll effectiveness of opponents, TRS ultimately found that its victory is not as easy as it foreseen.

The multiple visits by Sonia, Rahul and other congress leaders to Telangana for campaigning for Congress candidates also made TRS and KCR realize the potential threat to the party’s winning chances.

All these factors forced KCR to mend his tone in support of congress. On the poll day, he praised the congress and its leadership and also offered post-poll support to congress in centre. This step by KCR is clear indication of realization of TRS regarding its true strength.

With his statement in support of congress, KCR ensured support of congress in formation of government in new state by TRS (in case it is not able to garner the required strength of 60 MLA in assembly of 119 MLAs), it is reported.