Row comes close on the heels of BJP lashing out at KCR for talking about need for a new Constitution. KCR also said BJP should be uprooted from Centre & thrown into Bay of Bengal.
CM K. Chandrashekar Rao, his ministers, legislators and party workers joined in. Experts say many ways to read the protest, including a question on prestige factor.
The bypoll results are a boost for the BJP which aims to expand its footprint in Telangana. The results also indicate growing anti-incumbency against the TRS.
The 30 October bypoll is seen as a grudge match between the Telangana chief minister and his erstwhile party colleague and minister, Eatala Rajender, who is the BJP candidate.
RTI reply from citizen helpline MeeSeva suggests potential Covid death undercounting in Telangana. State doesn’t call it a Covid death if patient has comorbidities.
In past couple of months, KCR’s son KTR has been seen leading charge at many events, like Covid vaccine rollout, and many TRS leaders have fuelled speculation about his ascent as CM.
KCR has been conspicuously absent in recent times, missing important public events. While opposition digs in, CMO says it shouldn't matter so long as work is being done.
They have never officially been in alliance, but ruling party TRS and AIMIM have been known to share a friendly relationship since Telangana was formed in 2014.
RJD, once a prominent representative of Mandal politics, now finds itself in a political era where welfare, good governance, and new aspirations are overshadowing old caste equations.
Without a Congress revival, there can be no challenge to the BJP pan-nationally. Modi’s party is growing, and almost entirely at the cost of the Congress.
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