Any political party hoping to win the elections and form the government in any state aims big in the victory and wants to decimate the opposition completely.
Sometimes, the party might get more seats than its expectations like the YSR Congress party in Andhra Pradesh, which expected to win around 120 out of 175 assembly seats in the 2019 assembly elections, but ended up with a massive figure of 151 assembly seats, thereby marginalising the opposition Telugu Desam Party completely.
In Telangana, too, ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi president and chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao had claimed that his party would win around 100 out of 119 assembly seats in the 2018 assembly elections. The TRS won 88 seats, but within no time, it managed to attract the opposition MLAs to increase its tally to 100.
So, it is essential that any political party hoping to form the government should aim at winning the maximum number of seats in the assembly elections.
If the party is lucky, it might win even more than its projection and otherwise, it would get at least the absolute figure.
But Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee president A Revanth Reddy appears to be not confident of winning a good number of seats in the next assembly elections in Telangana, scheduled to be held two years later.
While claiming that the Congress would definitely come to power in the next elections and nobody would stop it, Revanth said his party would win 72 assembly seats in Telangana.
One doesn’t know how Revanth has arrived at this figure, but it is too moderate projection for a political party hoping to form the next government.
Nobody would have faulted him had he said the Congress would win at least 100 assembly seats, even if it is an exaggeration.
By saying the Congress would win 72 seats, which is just 12 seats more than the absolute mark, Revanth conceded that the party would have to face a tough battle and it is not so easy to defeat the TRS with a big margin. It also indicated that the BJP might also give a strong fight in the elections.
Such statements would demoralise the party cadre, as the PCC chief himself is giving a thinner margin of victory.
“If Revanth says the party would win 72 seats, the probability of it coming to power in Telangana is bleak. He should not have said that,” a party leader observed.
However, Revanth has been making all out efforts to revitalise the party by holding a series of meetings to be among the people. If he takes up the padayatra, then the chances of the party are likely to improve in the coming days.