: Polls in the air: BJPs sustained aggression keeps up the heat on TRS #IndiaNEWS #News Hyderabad: Assembly elections in Telangana may be a year away but a poll-like atmosphere is already gripping

Polls in the air: BJPs sustained aggression keeps up the heat on TRS #IndiaNEWS #News
Hyderabad: Assembly elections in Telangana may be a year away but a poll-like atmosphere is already gripping the state with all the three major political players using every opportunity to outdo each other and reach out to people.
Be it the public meetings of Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao, the padyatra of state BJP chief Bandi Sanjay Kumar, frequent visits of Central ministers and BJP leaders and the different campaigns by Congress party, all are raising political dust and heat usually witnessed during electioneering.
Though the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) has ruled out advancing the polls, scheduled towards the end of 2023, it has started gearing up for the battle to win a third term in power in Indias youngest state.
Political observer Professor K. Nageshwar believes that after the BJPs victory in two Assembly by-elections (Dubbak in 2020 and Huzurabad in 2021) and its good show in Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC), the TRS is under pressure.
TRS is under pressure but it is too early to conclude who will win the next elections, he said.
After the BJPs victory in Dubbak and Huzurabad and good show in GHMC elections, obviously TRS is under pressure. Because Congress was weakening, TRS thought it would have no opposition. Interestingly enough, they got a new opponent and a strong opponent in the form of BJP, said Nageshwar, a professor in the department of journalism.
He pointed out that BJP not only got good electoral results but it is in power at the Centre unlike the Congress. They have all the resources. The Central leadership is completely backing the state leadership unlike the Congress, he said.
Nageswar Rao is of the view that whenever elections are held it will be a triangular contest. Obviously, it will be a triangular contest, given the fact that Congress is still there and BJP is improving, he said.
Projecting itself as the only viable alternative to the TRS and buoyed by victories in two Assembly by-elections, the BJP is pushing aggressively towards its Mission 2023.
After missing out power twice despite claiming credit for carving out Telangana state, the Congress party is facing a huge challenge to reclaim its traditional stronghold. It suffered a series of blows including defeat in all four by-elections since 2019, defection of a dozen MLAs and the infighting.
Even as the grand old party was trying to focus its energies on 2023 polls, resignation of its sitting MLA from Munugode constituency, Komatireddy Rajagopal Reddy added to its woes. Rajagopal Reddy quit the Congress party and switched loyalties to the BJP.
Political analysts see Rajagopal Reddys resignation as a strategy by the BJP to force another by-election to step up pressure on TRS.

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