KCR all set to resume election campaign 

Hyderabad: TRS chief K Chandrashekar Rao is all set to resume his election campaign and go into election mode for the next two months. KCR, who kick-started electioneering with a public meeting in Husnabad a few days ago, is likely to choose his minister-son K T Rama Rao's Assembly segment Sircilla as the next stop to reach out to voters.

TRS functionaries would be targeting to mobilize a crowd of nearly one lakh for this meeting. Temple town of Vemulawada represented by TRS MLA Chennamaneni Ramesh is also near to Sircilla and hence KCR might prefer a middle location so that party functionaries from both segments could attend. 

Also, the TRS government took upon Vemulawada temple makeover in a big way, constituting a separate authority and allocating funds, similar to Yadadri temple development and KCR would like to present the report card to voters from the two segments and seek their support to continue the good work.

After few days' stay in his farm house due to ongoing Ganesh festivities, KCR is expected to get busy this week with a series of party internal meetings to discuss electioneering and party strategy among others.

TRS sources said the leaders in Mahbubnagar, Nalgonda and Khammam districts are gearing up for TRS supremo’s public meetings in coming weeks. Plans are being drawn so that KCR would address major public meetings at one location in each of the erstwhile 10 districts initially before entering other constituencies.

Also, suspense on pending list of TRS candidates for the 14 remaining constituencies might end in the coming days with KCR likely to finalize the names. After the first list with 105 names was announced on September 6, TRS candidates hit electioneering mode and most of them have been camping in respective constituencies trying to win confidence of voters through various programmes.

The TRS leadership is learnt to have kept a close watch on candidates’ moves, electioneering and man management skills to avoid rebel troubles in respective constituency. KCR is likely to go through these surveys and hold deliberations with key leaders in this connection. Speculation is rife for the last two weeks that KCR might not give B forms to some of the 105 candidates named in the first list and it remains to be seen how he would react to this talk or maintain silence.