TRS working president K.T. Rama Rao on Saturday urged partymen to work hard to win the Nalgonda Lok Sabha seat. Addressing a preparatory meeting here on Saturday, Mr. Rao said the TRS or Telangana State would be in a commanding position at the Centre only if it secures 16 Lok Sabha seats.
“When Laloo Prasad Yadav was a Railway Minister, railway tracks were laid till his mother-in-law’s village, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banarjee announced special routes for her State, and Prime Minister Narendra Modi too made sure that the bullet train project starts in Gujarat and not in south,” he said.
But as was the case in 2014, there is no such thing as ‘Modi wave’ now, while Congress has no scope for winning the Lok Sabha elections as all ‘surveys’ point to their not securing more than 150 seats. All the other parties should unite and form the federal front, Mr. KTR said.
Vote share
Stating that the party performed well in the undivided Nalgonda district, he said the vote share had gone up from 22% in 2014 to 47% in the State elections. And with the Nalgonda LS seat victory, the TRS flag would fly higher, he hoped.
Three-time Nalgonda MP Gutha Sukender Reddy, who earlier spoke, suggested that he was not in the race now. “Two medical colleges have been sanctioned, irrigation of land under Nagarjunasagar project has been made possible, and with Yadadri thermal power plant, the face of Nalgonda has changed. I feel blessed to have served Nalgonda three terms as its MP,” he said.
Legislators of the seven Assembly constituencies here, Members of Parliament, and Minister for Education G. Jagadish Reddy assured Mr. KTR of victory in the April 11 elections.