Following series of setbacks, the Congress in Telangana is bracing itself for the final and decisive battle in this term to prove it’s relevance in the new state of Telangana. The election to Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation(GHMC), slated in January, is a real test for the leadership’s ability to steer the party to recovery in future.
En masse migrations of MLAs, MLCs, humiliating defeat in Warangal by-election, lack of candidates to field in the ongoing MLC elections and many more important leaders reportedly sitting on the fence -all hit the morale of the party workers in Telangana. The port of last call for the party is GHMC. A defeat in the GHMC polls will prove fatal for the survival of the party in future.
T-Congress has drawn an elaborate two-pronged plan to arrest the rout of the party in state capital. The plan, now being implemented, according TPCC working president Mallu Bhatti Vikramarkha, will serve the twin purpose of keeping a watch on the abuse of authority by the ruling TRS in GHMC elections, taking the failures of TRS government to every door step in the GHMC area and tell people on the need to vote in favor of Congress.
Congress is appointing an army of 6000 leaders for the purpose. ” We are appointing 150 division committees, each committee with 40 members. Each member of division committee is made in charge of a polling station in every assembly segment. In turn the division committee member will appoint a booth committee for the area that falls under his polling station. We have about 1000 voters per polling station. At this rate each booth committee member will be given responsibility of 100 voters, which roughly works out to 25 families. The member regularly visits the 25 families with party workers and tell them about Congress and its contribution to the development of Hyderabad. His team will also explain how TRS has backed out on the poll promises after coming power, along with corruption in the government, family rule in state etc,” Bhatti told ‘telugu360.com’.
He said, the Congress had already appointed division committees in Qutbullapur, Sherilingampally and LB Nagar and on Sunday committees for Kukatpalli and Uppla would be appointed. After completion of this process, he said, the party was planning padayatras by senior leaders in all Assembly segments on December 18. On December 21, election offices would be set up in all divisions, followed by the release of Congress GHMC election pamphlet.
To coordinate between the divisional committee and booth committee, the party is appointing a senior party leader from other districts will be appointed as observer. Bhatti said migrations from Congress had not affected the party structure at the grass root level. ” All opposition parties pass through such a phase of migrations to ruling party. It’s natural. The process will be reversed once Congress comes to power. The issue of some leaders leaving the party is not at all a problem as it is being made out to be in media. Congress is going to stage a comeback in GHMC,” Bhatti exuded confidence.
