HYDERABAD: Chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao, who is leaving no stone unturned to ensure TRS win in Huzurabad bypoll, has now set party leaders the target to meet every beneficiary of welfare schemes in the constituency. The mission is to get across a simple message: All welfare schemes are due to the tireless work of TRS government and not because of KCR’s friend-turned-foe Eatala Rajender.
There are over one lakh beneficiaries of Rythu Bandhu, Aasara pensions, sheep and fish fingerlings distribution, Rythu Bima, Rs 1 kg rice, new pensions, ration cards and fee reimbursement in addition to the proposed Dalit Bandhu scheme in the poll-bound constituency.
CM KCR has now directed his ministers, MPs, MLCs, MLAs and local leaders to meet at least two members from each beneficiary family. TRS hopes its welfare schemes would deliver the message of KCR’s magnanimity that the state not only continued with sops despite Covid hitting revenue but also rolled out a new plan in Dalit Bandhu. There is a promise to start more welfare schemes if TRS wins.
Finance minister T Harish Rao is also leaving no opportunity to explain to the people in the constituency that despite a loss of nearly Rs 1 lakh crore to the state due to the pandemic, the CM has given clear instructions to continue all welfare schemes.
Ministers Gangula Kamalakar and Koppula Eshwar, who are mostly camping in the constituency, have repeatedly reminded voters that schemes would continue at all costs while countering BJP claims that the state would stop them if people voted for Eatala.
There is also a proposal to send SMS, letters and pamphlets to every voter on behalf of CM KCR seeking their support. A similar strategy was adopted even in Nagarjuna Sagar bypoll where TRS’ young leader Nomula Bhagat defeated Congress veteran K Jana Reddy.
The TRS has fielded another young leader in Gellu Srinivas Yadav for the Huzurabad bypoll against the formidable Eatala Rajender of the BJP. Both of them are “udyama nayakulu” who participated in statehood agitation.
The mission is to get across the message that all welfare schemes are due to the tireless work of TRS government and not because of KCR’s friend-turned-foe Eatala
