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KCR 2.0: 10 Reasons For This Telangana Blockbuster Published: December 11, 2018 21:06 IST by TaboolaSponsored LinksSponsored Build Credit For Your Business With This Credit Card (BECU) 20 Places Where $200K Is More Than Enough To Retire (MoneyWise.com) SHARE 0 COMMENTS On the campaign trail in Telangana, KT Rama Rao used a cricketing analogy while speaking to NDTV. He was confident that like Virat Kohli, his father and chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao or KCR "would hit a century in the Telangana test". KCR may lead his party to just short of the three-figure mark but it does not take away from the clinical decimation of the opposition - the Congress-led People's Front which included Chandrababu Naidu's TDP. Most exit polls had predicted a victory for KCR's party, the TRS, but the scale has surprised even party insiders. On the ground, one got the sense that there was no anti-incumbency against KCR with most people happy with his targeted freebie schemes. The problem for the Chief Minister could arise, it seemed, from any dissatisfaction with his legislators, given that he had re-nominated most of them. So what has led to Telangana gold for KCR? Here are 10 reasons: 1.KCR's welfare schemes: From fisherfolk to barbers, farmers to washermen, from industrialists to slum dwellers, KCR had something for everyone. He introduced pensions, drinking water connections, 24X7 power, council flats or two-bedroom homes, free eye-checkups, the much-adored Kalyana Lakshmi /Shaadi Mubarak scheme that provided Rs. 1 lakh for a daughter's marriage. And voters saw the election as payback time. The few groups who got no dole at all also voted for TRS, hoping they will luck out this time around. The elite may have dismissed this as populism a la Jayalalithaa, but the fact remains that KCR provided a government that showed it cared. 445p6u2 By announcing 90 per cent of his party candidates the day he dissolved the Telangana assembly, KCR displayed confidence. 2.A decisive vote for KCR and family: Unlike the opposition which depended on star campaigners from outside Telangana including film stars-turned-politicians, the TRS' blue-chip speakers were KCR, son KTR, daughter K Kavitha and nephew Harish Rao. The mandate has decisively trumped any criticism of the family raj in Telangana. With a centralised approach, the campaign narrative was also more focused. 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. 6imrk87o The vote in Telangana can be interpreted as an expression of anger against the Congress alliance with TDP. 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. https://www.ndtv.com/blog/telangana-assembly-elections-2018- kcr-2-0-10-reasons-for-this-telangana-blockbuster-1961240?pf rom=home-topscroll  Nagarjuna Sagar...SriSailam...Polavaram...Handri-Neeva...SomaSila...ThotaPalli...VeliGonda...PuliChintala..etc |
