Hyderabad: With Lok Sabha elections nearing, the Telangana Congress is yet to gear up for poll campaigning. However, many senior leaders such as S Jaipal Reddy, Revanth Reddy, DK Aruna are still silent and so far nothing materialised on the ground level, observes a political analyst.

For instance, Mahbubnagar Lok Sabha constituency, in which TRS in 2014 won with small margin as the pink party got 3.34 lakh votes as against Congress’ 3.33 lakh votes, while BJP secured 2.72 lakh votes. Jitender Reddy on TRS ticket won as Mahbubnagar MP defeating Jaipal Reddy of Congress and Nagam Janardhan Reddy of BJP.

TRS won all the seven Assembly seats in undivided Mahbubnagar district in December 2018 from Mahbubnagar, Kodangal, Jadcherla, Shadnagar, Narayanapet, Devarakadra and Makhthal. After the dismal performance in the Assembly elections, party leaders have not taken up any major programme to boost the morale of cadres across the state, said the analyst.

Mahbubnagar district has been a major bastion for Congress for decades, but still lagging in Lok Sabha election campaign. If the situation is like this in Mahbubnagar district, one can imagine what would be the situation in other districts. If the senior leaders don’t take up the crisis management to take on TRS, we have to face the same fate as it was in the Assembly polls,” said a Congress leader.