Although TRS president and Telangana Chief Minister K.Chandrashekar Rao is repeatedly stating that there is no question of holding early Assembly polls in Telangana by dissolving the Legislative Assembly as was done in 2018, no one is believing his words. This is because KCR is known to do exactly the opposite to what he tells.

KCR dissolved Legislative Assembly in September 2018, eight months in advance, and forced early Assembly polls in Telangana in December 2018, while the original schedule was May 2019.

With this, speculations are rife in political circles that KCR will dissolve Legislative Assembly again in September this year to enable early polls in December this year along with Gujarat Assembly polls.

When media personnel questioned KCR about early polls during his press conference at Pragathi Bhavan, he ruled out such possibility saying that Assembly polls will be held as scheduled in December 2023.

But KCR made an interesting statement saying that this time he wants to declare TRS candidates for Assembly polls early and not in favour of early Assembly polls.

KCR said he wants to declare TRS candidates in June 2023 itself, six months before December 2023 Assembly polls.

The logic behind this is that KCR is confident of retaining power for thired term if candidates are declared six months in advance.

KCR revealed his internal survey reports which indicated that TRS will win 95 to 105 seats out of total 119 seats in Assembly, if candidates are declared six months in advance.

KCR said TRS came to power in 2014 by winning 63 seats out of 119 in Assembly and later the TRS increased its tally to 88 seats in 2018 and retained power and it is going to increase its tally further to 95 to 105 seats in 2023 and retain power for third term.