While Gandhi and his speech left Congress leaders and cadre in Telangana enthused, it is no secret that it is an uphill activity for the Congress to tackle the ruling TRS. Besides, although Gandhi solely talked about the TRS, there’s the rising BJP to sort out too.
At current, the Congress solely has six MLAs and three MPs. In the December 2018 elections, the celebration gained 19 seats however 13 of its MLAs defected to the TRS. Since 2014, the primary election after the bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh, the Congress has misplaced a lot of its voter base.
Congress leaders, whereas sounding upbeat in regards to the celebration’s prospects within the subsequent elections, admit they’ve loads of floor to cowl.
“TRS is a powerful rival and there’s the BJP on the opposite aspect. We are working arduous to deliver those that share the Congress’s concepts and beliefs again into the celebration fold,” a frontrunner stated, including that Gandhi too stated this in a gathering with Telangana Congress Committee (TPCC) leaders.
However, with the TRS and BJP already off the blocks — they’ve been aggressively wooing voters with door-to-door campaigns — questions are being raised about whether or not the Congress can catch-up.
The greatest problem for the TPCC is to deal with infighting.
Sources stated that whereas Gandhi spoke to the leaders about setting apart their egos and turf wars within the curiosity of the celebration, it is simpler stated than finished.
TPCC chief A Revanth Reddy, regardless of being a well-liked chief and a fierce critic of CM Ok Chandrashekar Rao, is taken into account an ‘outsider’ since he was with the TDP as late as 2017. Senior Congress chief MP Komatireddy Venkat Reddy and others have brazenly stated that they don’t need him to tour of their constituencies. Even on the Warangal public assembly, the frostiness amongst some Congress leaders was apparent.
The TRS has already hit again at Gandhi for his speech at Warangal. Responding to the Congress’s ‘Warangal declaration’, Telangana minister KT Rama Rao stated the celebration ought to first implement farm mortgage waivers and schemes like ‘Rythu Bandhu’ in states that it guidelines.
Rao additionally puzzled in what capability Gandhi had come to Telangana. “The mom (Sonia Gandhi) is the celebration chief, he’s a dummy. The Congress is an outdated celebration. If the Congress is so pro-farmer, why did it lose in Punjab? There is nothing new within the declaration he made yesterday. Congress had promised Rs 2 lakh of mortgage waiver in 2018 additionally. They misplaced then and they’ll proceed to lose,” he stated.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
