It’s Telangana all the way!

Published on Wednesday, July 28, 2010
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Even as polling for an ‘unusual’ by-election ended today evening, the mood of the voter became quite clear – it was Telangana sentiment all the way.

Notwithstanding the efforts by the TDP and the Congress to divert the attention of the voter, he appears to have stood like Arjuna in the Mahabharata, who saw the bird’s eye and nothing else. The voter seemed to have considered the mini-election as an electoral battle for Telangana and appeared undisturbed by the efforts of the two big parties to shift his focus.

The TDP has brought the Babli issue to the fore. But voters hardly felt it was linked to this election. The Congress distributed money and liquor in Nizamabad Urban and that didn’t seem to have any effect too. Distribution of money in elections is uncommon in this backward Telangana region.

With general factors like caste, religion, money and liquor becoming irrelevant in this election, the results will be on expected lines.

PCC chief D Srinivas has confined himself to Nizamabad for his own survival leaving the other party candidates in the lurch. However, today he claimed that the Congress will bag all the 12 seats.

TDP seniors were nowhere in the election scene, at least on the polling day. The party chief did not appeal to voters to vote for his candidates, not even through the media. On the polling day, the TDP candidates were clearly lagging in several segments.

Analysing the polling, a TDP candidate in Karimnagar district said the Congress has purchased voters and it won’t be easy for the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS). He didn’t mention about the the trends for the TDP, leave alone his winning chances.

TRS leader N Narasimha Reddy said despite gimmicks by other parties, the TRS would win all the seats. The PRP vote bank too has shifted to the TRS, he said.

The Congress hoped to gain from the TDP’s loss, even by ‘unfair’ means, but its hopes seem to have been dashed as the mood in the Congress camp has turned sullen by evening as realisation seem to have dawned that the voter is on firm ground as far as ‘T’ is concerned.

Source : ExpressBuzz

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