The old adage is true Saar, and voting in democracy ensures that people who are well informed make their own decisions come election time. But this process has been sidelined a bit with local media focusing only on negatives or positives depending on which party they are batting for. KCR, the head honcho of TRS has made sure that there was/is no opposition to him which presents us with present conundrum where the congress is not strong enough to be seen as a direct challenger or the BJP not having risen to the position of the opposition. When the congress was strong he essentially "bought" their mla's into his party after 2018 election and when BJP was looking to get stronger, KCR tried propping up the near dead congress. (It was seen during the byelection for Etala rajender seat and Rajagopal reddy's munugode byelection).ricky_v wrote: ↑16 Nov 2023 16:24eh, the old adage of democracy would apply true in this case then, the public deserves the party / leader it elects, if the public feels that kcr is only tall tales, they will vote accordingly, but then the question would be who would be voted instead, i do not know the disposition of the tpcc, but it would seem like a 2 way fight between brs and inc for the scheduled votebank and a 3 way fight between brs, inc and aimim for the minority appeasement politicsvenkat_kv wrote: ↑15 Nov 2023 08:00
The issue for KCR is that he always promises something with elections in mind and after elections are won it is put on a back burner.
After 2014 elections with KCR who went back on his words that he will merge his party into Congress if new telangana is given and also make a dalit guy CM when fighting with his party only to take the CMship himself. It is the same thing with dalit bandhu scheme, high rise buildings in tankbund areas, new hospitals, and many more that are announced with fanfare and they fade out after 3-4 months later.
The TRS undertook quite a few schemes after coming to power in 2014 that proved beneficial to the state of telangana, like providing farmers with money per acre on the top of what the Central govt was providing (ofcourse all of them are repackaged and having KCR's photo), giving the poshak abhiyaan scheme for newly expectant mothers, providing tap water to households (this was modelled on PM Modi's work during his tenure as Gujarat CM), or building small lakes for water storage like Fadnavis's Jal shivir and building canal system for improving the total acreage under farming.
But as the time went by the poll promises have gotten more grandiose and bordering on ridiculous. Just a year ago they brought in "dalit bandhu scheme" where every dalit family was to be given 10 lakhs in their bank account. But the govt doesn't have the money to give everyone, so riders were attached like the local DM would monitor the usage and money can only be withdrawn if the govt approves it or some such. that also has caused resentment as the money in your account cannot be used. There are the others where KTR (KCR's son) had promised to clean up the hyderabad sewage system as with every season of rains the city becomes a mini pond, but that disappears after period only to be brought back when the next time it rains. The TRS party rank and cadre behaving like TMC lite with respect to the opposition hasn't helped either.
By the looks of it it looks like Congress is trying to consolidate the minority votes to their cause and then use NGO's like they did in Karnataka to win and if they are successful they will try to replicate it all over India.
Paging our brahmastra Dilbuji for doing his anti-jinx from now till Dec 3rd
That is most welcome 
