Chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao seems to have realized that winning the Warangal Lok Sabha is not a cake walk given the dip in the popularity level of the government following many flip-flops on issues such as loan waiver, farmers’ suicides, KG to PG education etc, he asked seven ministers to make sure the ruling party wins the election. Finance minister Etala Rajender will take care of parakala segment while chief minister’s on and IT minister Taraka Ramarao is made in charge of Warangal West. Irrigation minister has been asked to ensure majoirty from Warangal East. Power minister Jgandiswar Reddy will concentrate in Palakurthi and agriculture minister Pocharam Srinivas Reddy in Bhupal Palli. A Indrakaran Reddy and Jogu Ramanna are responsible for Station Ghanpur and Vardhanna pet assembly segments respectively.
He has begun the exercise to pickup the winning horse for Warangal race, and the name of the candidate is expected to be announced on Friday. The chief minister went into a huddle with his party seniors, ministers, MLAs, MPs and leaders from Warangal district on Thursday to counter the opposition strategy to cash in on the anti-incumbency generated for the government in the 16 months.
It is learnt Gudimalla Ravi Kumar is the most preferred candidate. Ravikumar, now party secretary, is an advocate from Warangal and he participated actively in the Telangana movement.
The TRS is planning to launch its campaign with a bang wtih an Assembly-level meeting on November 1. KCR will campaign on November 17 and 18, just days before the polling day, to boost the winning chances of the party candidate. The polling is slated on November 21. The dealy in announcing the candidate is mainly attributed to the fact the there were too many candidates aspiring the ticket and KCR had not only to pacify them and ensure that they all participated in the campaign.
The party is banking on the TDP Rajya Sabha MP Gundu Sudharani’s joining the party, and recently launched two-bed room house of poor, Kakatiya mission , water grid project along with proposal to develop Warangal in to a smart city to counter negative propaganda of opposition parties.
