Battle lines have been drawn in Telangana with the Election Commission announcing the conduct of assembly elections in the state on December 7. For the next two months, it will be the election season in the state.
The Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) is well ahead of its political rivals in the announcement o candidates for 105 out of the total 119 assembly constituencies and also in the election campaign.
Party president and caretaker chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao already addressed four major election meetings in the last one month, while its candidates have already started door to door campaign.
On the other hand, the opposition parties the Congress, TDP, CPI and Telangana Jana Samithi (TJS) are still struggling to form the grand alliance and complete the seat sharing talks.
The Congress, however, started its poll campaign with a massive public meeting at Jogulamba Gadwal on Thursday, where the party leaders vowed to work to bring Congress to power.
The BJP is struggling to prove its identity yet. Its president Amit Shah inspired the party cadres in his first visit in September and is scheduled to address a public meeting in Karimnagar on October 10.
While the TRS is harping on the welfare schemes it had launched for various vulnerable and weaker sections, the opposition is highlighting the failure of the TRS to fulfil its 2014 promises, apart from the suicides of farmers and weavers, incomplete irrigation projects, pushing the rich state into debts among others.
Watch out for masala reports from the ground in the coming days!