Hyderabad: The BRS has made its New Year wish. That of seeing its president and former chief minister K. Chandrashekar Rao regain the post he lost after his party lost the 2023 Assembly elections.
“Our wish, that of all BRS leaders and workers, is to see KCR become the Chief Minister again. That is our wish,” working president K.T. Rama Rao said on Wednesday.
Speaking briefly at a New Year gathering in Telangana Bhavan, the party headquarters in Hyderabad where he released the party calendar for 2025, Rama Rao said, “This year, under KCR’s leadership, let us work for more victories. And if there are hurdles, or irritants, we shall overcome them.” He added the party’s wishes that the party will receive the blessings from the people of Telangana this year.
The BRS, which won only 19 seats in the 2023 Assembly elections, and failed to win any of the 17 Lok Sabha seats in the general elections the same year, has been working towards making its presence felt by mounting relentless attacks on the one-year-old Congress government, particularly targeting Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy.
For the BRS’ prospects to brighten, the party believes that it must make its presence, and strength, felt in the gram panchayat elections that are expected to be held in the near future.
Several in the party believe that Chandrashekar Rao needs to lead the party from the front for this to happen, and though hints are dropped every now and then that he will do so soon, party sources say that this could be some time away.
This is particularly because Chandrashekar Rao continues to be the primary target of the Congress government, which over the past one year, has been picking the BRS’ 10-year rule apart over various omissions and commissions. Though Revanth Reddy, as well as several of his Cabinet colleagues have been calling on Chandrashekar Rao to come out into the public and say what he has to on the government, or give suggestions, the BRS president has been wary to do so, and so far, chosen to stay away from any direct confrontation with the ruling party.
The heavy lifting, meanwhile, has been left to Rama Rao, and senior BRS leader and former minister T. Harish Rao. Of late, Chandrashekar Rao’s daughter and MLC, K. Kavitha, who stayed away from the public eye for a while after her release from Tihar jail in the Delhi liquor scam case, joined her brother and cousin in taking active part in the party holding meetings with her followers, and party workers, and focusing on the issue of BC reservations.
