Hyderabad: BRS gearing up for Lok Sabha elections

Hyderabad: After the recent setback in the assembly elections, the BRS is reorganizing the party machinery and chalking out a strategy for a victorious comeback in the Lok Sabha elections to be held in April-May next year. The party, reeling from its defeat in the assembly elections, has engaged in a detailed post-mortem, carefully analyzing the factors that contributed to both its successes and failures. BRS acting president KT Rama Rao started preparations and held key meetings related to the parliamentary electoral districts of Hyderabad, Secunderabad and Chevella. This will lead to parliamentary meetings with key leaders from across the state. This will be followed by a full-fledged meeting with party supremo and former minister Principal K. Chandrasekhar Rao, who is currently recovering from cadre replacement surgery. Sources said that in the review of Lok Sabha electoral districts, they are identifying all the factors that led to the party’s defeat in each constituency of the Assembly and they are initiating corrective measures. For this, they are analyzing data from the seven assembly constituencies that constitute each electoral district of the Lok Sabha. Apart from focusing on consolidation, the BRS leadership is busy formulating strategies to capitalize on the failures of the Congress government in the implementation of its six guarantees and other poll promises. Apart from this, they are also trying to counter BJP effectively with new enthusiasm. Unchanged by recent election results, the BRS presents its substantial percentage of votes as evidence of continued public support. Despite receiving fewer votes, the party says its vote percentage is solid, standing at 37.35 percent compared to Congress’s 39.4 percent, a marginal difference of two percentage points. Party experts say this highlights its resonance among voters, and a strategic review is simply needed to create a narrative conducive to the Lok Sabha elections. “Work has started at the grassroots level. Except for one or two steps, it is likely that most of the exercises will be repeated. We are expecting a change of candidates on some of the seats where the party lost during the last Lok Sabha elections in 2019. Soon we will meet our party chief after he recovers”, a BRS deputy told Telangana Today. He did not rule out the possibility that the former minister would contest the Lok Sabha elections in the electoral district of Principal Medak, which is vacant after Deputy Kotha Prabhakar Reddy was recently elected to the Assembly. During the Lok Sabha elections, the BRS aspired not only to regain its lost ground but also to emerge as a stronger force, taking advantage of the lessons learned from its recent electoral defeat.