Kavitha sure of TRS romping home in polls

Hyderabad:  Amid speculations that TDP is keen to join hands with TRS in 2019 elections, Telangana Jagruthi President and Nizamabad MP K Kavitha on Tuesday said the TRS would go it alone in the elections. She is confident that the TRS would score a resounding victory. She ruled out the reshuffle of the State Cabinet in near future. 

In a chit-chat with reporters at the Secretariat, Kavitha, Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao’s daughter, said the electoral battle would take place between the TRS and the other opposition parties.  Her party is ready to give a tough fight to the united opposition. The TRS, she said, would emerge victorious in the next elections. She exuded confidence that TRS would win at least 100 seats out of 119 Assembly constituencies in the State.  

She welcomed the TDP Telangana unit senior leader M Narasimhulu’s proposal to merge Telugu Desam Party with the TRS. “This time war is one-sided,” she added.  Kavitha said many leaders from different parties, including the main opposition Congress, are eager to join TRS.  The TRS chief would admit only credible leaders into his party.  The MP rubbished reports that the party was facing crisis in some districts as TRS leaders and others who joined the party created their own separate groups in the party.

Considering 2019 as election year, the MP said the Chief Minister would introduce a slew of new welfare schemes in 2018-19 budget proposals. Referring to the NDA cooperation to the State government, Kavitha said the Centre was according priority only to the election-bound States in releasing funds and also sanctioning new schemes. Telangana State has been demanding the allotment of AIIMs, Horticulture and Tribal universities and also the long-pending Spices Park in Nizamabad district. 

The state would also take up the issue of enhancement of quota for Tribals and Muslims in education and employment with the Union government during the ongoing budget session in the Parliament.

Kavitha said that the issue of creation of dependent jobs in Singareni Collieries Company Limited (SCCL) would be resolved soon as the government was preparing a draft proposal on the particular issue. The Chief Minister would take a final decision soon.