There has been a common complaint from various sections of people against Telangana Rashtra Samithi president and chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao: that he is not accessible even to the MLAs and ministers, leave alone party workers and common people.
Except during the TRS plenary and other party-related programmes, there had hardly been any occasion in which KCR was in touch with the party workers.
There were instances of several TRS MLAs not having met the chief minister directly even for three or four times in the four and half years of the previous term.
As regards the common people, it was easier for them to get the darshan of Lord Venkateshwara of Tirumala, rather than the chief minister.
The Pragathi Bhavan was not open for common people and KCR’s farm house at Erravelli was virtually a fortress for them to enter.
In spite of all these complaints, people had voted for the TRS, because of the welfare schemes his government had taken up.
But, now things might be a little different in the TRS. KCR’s son K T Rama Rao, who assumed charge as party’s working president, appears to have decided to adopt a different approach.
He wants to make it a point to meet the party workers regularly, hold meetings with senior functionaries and extensively tour districts to reach out to the people to understand their problems directly.
He displayed his style of functioning soon after assuming the charge. He attended a meeting of party executive and went on a tour to Siricilla, Jangaon and Warangal.
After taking break for a few days, KTR is back to his work at Telangana Bhavan on Thursday.
He would be holding a meeting of state general secretaries of the party on Friday at Telangana Bhavan, where he is going to chalk out the strategies for coming elections, planning meetings, voters list and to construct party offices.
Naturally, he wants to prove as a true leader!