Telangana - With 5 days to go, political heat in peaks

SIBY JEYYA
The state's 17 lok sabha seats are up for election on May 13, and with only five days to go, telangana campaigning has peaked in what looks to be a three-cornered race.
 
To win over voters, the senior leaders of the state's three major political parties—the bharatiya janata party (BJP), the main opposition Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS), and the ruling Congress—are traveling the state giving speeches at public gatherings, rallies, and road shows.
 
The politicians are working hard to win over voters with a litany of promises despite the intense heat.
 
Additionally, the candidates are making door-to-door canvassing trips to the communities inside their respective constituencies.


Congress seeks to repeat 2023 success, BRS reeling under defeat

The congress wants to emulate its success from the 2023 assembly elections, when it took 64 of the 119 seats in the state and ousted the K. Chandrashekar Rao-led BRS.
 
The bjp is confident of building on its strong performance in the state polls, where it increased its tally to eight from just one in 2018. The BRS, on the other hand, is making every effort to recover from its defeat in the assembly polls and the departure of several important leaders over the last five months.

Allegations & challenges fly

All three parties' leaders are occupied with leveling accusations and challenges at one another. It's interesting to note that each side claims the other two have a hidden agreement.
 
The BRS is accusing both the congress and the bjp of engaging in appeasement politics, while the congress is accusing the bjp of "spreading hatred in the name of religion."
 
Congress is asking for votes to deliver the remaining pledges while highlighting the execution of some commitments made during the assembly polls. Its leaders are urging telangana voters to cast their state's most votes to support the congress and the india alliance in their attempt to create a central government.

Concurrently, the bjp and BRS are criticizing the congress for allegedly "failing" to carry out its pledges, reminding the leaders of the party that they committed to implementing all six assurances within a hundred days.
 
Party president and former chief minister K. chandrasekhar Rao, often known as KCR, is spearheading the BRS campaign.
 
Every day, he draws sizable audiences by going on a bus yatra and doing roadshows.
 
Both KCR's nephew and important party leader T. Harish Rao, as well as his son K.T. Rama Rao, the BRS Working President, are giving speeches in public and traveling across their respective areas in roadshows.

The leaders portray the BRS as the sole organisation capable of defending Telangana's interests.
 
K.T. Rama Rao's campaign is concentrated in and around Hyderabad, covering constituencies including Hyderabad, Secunderabad, Malkajgiri, and Chevella, much like it did in the previous elections.
 
Much before the election timetable was announced, the bjp introduced the public about the many programmes that the Modi administration had introduced and carried out over the past ten years through the Vijay Sankalp Yatras in February.
 
 


 
 
 

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