IS BRS PREPARING FOR EARLY ASSEMBLY POLLS IN TELANGANA?

As the Telangana Assembly election is scheduled to be held around December 2023 to elect its 119 members for the state’s Legislative Assembly, the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS), led by K. Chandrashekhar Rao, is seen to be in pursuit of early elections. A BRS leader said, “We are around six months away from elections. But it seems that KCR is preparing for early elections.”

- BADAR BASHIR

There is talk in political circles that the BRS wants to have cordial relationship with BJP so that if BRS dissolves the Assembly early, the Election Commission will conduct the elections right after the dissolution. A senior BRS functionary said, “KCR has strong dislike for Assembly elections being held in parallel with the Lok Sabha elections.

In the last elections as well, he dissolved the Assembly around nine months earlier. Right now, he could be flirting with the idea of dissolving the Assembly so that the Assembly elections are held early, for he can get enough time to pull a different strategy for Lok Sabha elections.”