Bad roads to hit TRS in the upcoming civic polls in Hyderabad

Hyderabad: The ruling TRS leadership is in a fix ahead of GHMC elections as not a single “urban centric initiative” was successfully implemented by the TRS government during its 17-month rule, which can be publicised extensively to attract urban voters.

The party is thus currently forced to take up a publicity blitz by putting up huge hoardings across the city, highlighting “rural and poor-centric” welfare schemes, which does not appeal to urban middle class voters who constitute a major chunk of the electorate.

TRS city leaders and cadres brought to the notice of the party leadership that the existing rural and poor-centric hoardings, boasting of giving Rs 1,000 per month pensions for poor, ration rice at 6 kg per head, were in fact causing more harm to the party’s prospects as urban voters were feeling let down by the TRS government for not addressing their problems of drinking water shortage, bad roads, pathetic traffic, poor road lighting, streets and colonies, garbage and drainage.

The cadre wants “urban-centric” publicity but the TRS government has not launched or completed any urban-centric projects like the Metro Rail, Hussainsagar cleaning, building skyways, skyscrapers, multi-level flyovers etc., which can be publicised as all of these remain either on paper or are still in a proposal stage.