KCR Risking With ‘Telangana’?

The Telangana politics are centered around KCR’s national political party launch. While TRS party sources are confident that KCR will make an impact in national politics, the likes of BJP and Congress are least bothered about it. From Revanth Reddy to Union Minister Kishan Reddy, every one opines that KCR’s attempts to rule Delhi will miserably fail.

After two decades this is yet another new beginning for KCR. In 2001, KCR floated TRS and after 13 long years of intense agitation, the statehood was achieved. Though the credit should go to Congress and Sonia Gandhi for carving out Telangana, KCR hijacked it and took full advantage of it in the 2014 elections. And yes ‘Telangana’ sentiment played a significant role in the 2014 and 2018 elections.

While Telangana sentiment hugely worked (Mostly in polls) in KCR’s favour, now he is set to replace ‘Telangana’ with India by floating Bharat Rashtra Samithi. But will the sentiment work here? This is unpredictable because the political equations and situations across the country are different. Keep aside the country, the politics are poles apart in north and south India.

In South India, people mostly prefer the regional parties while the north is dominated by national parties. In this pretext, KCR has to do a lot of ground work especially to convince the people of the north to vote for him. In the south, KCR’s attempts will be futile because every regional party (those in ruling) is very dominant in their respective states.

KCR was successful in convincing the people of Telangana with the sentiment factor and he needs to repeat a similar sentiment that can fetch him votes. For now KCR is trying to woo the farmers by promising free electricity to the agriculture sector. But one community doesn’t vote KCR or BRS to power. What will KCR offer to other communities? Needs more than just a ‘sentiment.’