If the TRS Party contests the GHMC polls on its own, it would be wiped out as it has zero or negligible support in Hyderabad.
For this reason, KCR is poaching corporators from other Parties to contest on the TRS ticket.
He is also looking for showpieces of his governance to justify his appeal to GHMC voters, the majority of whom are non-Telanganites i.e. people who have made Hyderabad what it is today, but are considered non-locals or settlers.
Some advisers to KCR are of the opinion that it is better to hold the GHMC polls next year when at least two stretches of the Metro Rail would have been commissioned.
This is absolutely amusing! KCR trying to project the ‘Metro Rail’ project as his brainchild for the purpose of elections.
The Metro Rail Project was conceived and given the go-ahead during United Andhra Pradesh.
In fact, the project would have been progressing at breakneck speed but for KCR and his agitations.
In fact, even after KCR became CM, with the doubling of his Mt Everest sized ego, he demanded that L&T change the route of Metro Rail in old city areas, out of fear of MIM. L&T then threatened to walk out of the project.
Hence it is amusing to see KCR trying to win votes by projecting the Metro Rail as an example of his good governance.
A sad strategy for a person who has only sentiment to back him and nothing concrete against his name.
Kiran Sharma
