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Andhrawala
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3.The opposition's negative politics: The strategy employed by the People's Front was erroneous. Instead of explaining how its governance would differ from that of the TRS, it focused on KCR, piling on the allegations against his family. The verdict is proof that negative politics does not work unless backed by an effective alternate template. 4. The alliance with Chandrababu Naidu: The vote can be interpreted as an expression of Telangana's anger against the Congress alliance with the TDP. Naidu was seen as having tried his hardest to obstruct the formation of Telangana as the country's youngest state in 2013-14. The TRS found in him a villain, and turned the campaign into a KCR vs Naidu plot. KCR in effect then asked people to choose between the man who led the movement for the state of Telangana and the man who tried to thwart it. Also labelling Naidu as an Andhra man trying to enter a neighbouring state by proxy (via the Congress) helped the TRS grab more votes. 5. The Andhra vote: The assumption was that the TDP would bring the votes of Andhra settlers (14 per cent of Telangana's population) to the People's Alliance. Which is why all the seats allotted to the TDP in the alliance were in Hyderabad and Khammam. But what the Congress did not factor in was that not every Andhra settler in Telangana is from coastal Andhra or from Naidu's Kamma community. The Reddys from Rayalaseema who are more loyal to Jaganmohan Reddy and the Kapus who favour actor-politician Pawan Kalyan ended up voting for the TRS. In effect, their opposition to Naidu in Andhra proved costly for the Congress in Telangana. 8. Better communicators: KCR and his family members are the best in the business when it comes to communicating, especially in Telangana lingo. In contrast, the opposition suffered from lack of quality orators barring Revanth Reddy who was smartly confined to his Kodangal constituency by the TRS which pinned him down with an aggressive campaign there. Rahul Gandhi talking about Narendra Modi and Rafale in Telangana constituencies when the BJP is not even a player in the state showed the Congress got its communication strategy completely wrong. https://www.ndtv.com/blog/telangana-assembly-elections-2018- kcr-2-0-10-reasons-for-this-telangana-blockbuster-1961240?pf rom=home-election-latest No Signature |