Will Early Polls Ensure KCR Second Term?
If KCR really goes for early polls by dissolving Telangana Assembly, can his rivals rise for the occasion?
Congress is putting a brave face, concealing its handicap: having no chief minister candidate to take on KCR. Kondaram’s Telangana Jana Samithi, is still a non-starter. The new outfit has an inherent flaw: the founder himself is new to power politics and no other leader in the party is as tall as the founder.
BJP is trying its best to bank on at least on emotive issue, like cow-slaughter, to capitalise the Hindutva vote. But it’s left with no time to play the trick. Again the question of projecting a charismatic leader for the saffron party from the state still remains to be answered. KCR , therefore, may conveniently bank on his opponents’ weaknesses rather than on his own strengths.
Though most of the underprivileged sections in the state are disenchanted with the government, there is less likelihood that this discontentment turns out to be anti-incumbency. The reason is plain enough: The parties, other than TRS, have no leader to be a match to KCR.
But KCR has one thing to worry about: The Telangana TDP may join hands with the Congress in Telangana. The very move , if materialised, may woo the settlers’ voters. Barring this one, it will be a cake walk for him to come to power in the second consecutive term.
