While BJP has been aiming for ‘Congress-Mukth Bharat’ (Congress-free India) across the nation, KCR seems to be geared towards an ‘Opposition-Mukth Telangana’.
After successfully wiping out the Opposition from the Legislative Council with forcible merger of Congress into the TRS two days ago, KCR has now set his eyes on wiping out the Opposition from the Legislative Assembly.
According to sources, KCR wants to convene the first session of the new Assembly without any notable Opposition and for that reason he has been delaying the Assembly session.
He is believed to be engineering a TRS-Congress merger and TRS-TDP merger in the Assembly by following 'same strategy' that was adopted in Legislative Council.
The two MLAs who won from TDP are all set to submit a petition to Speaker requesting merger of TDP into TRS soon.
Also, 12 out of the total 19 Congress MLAs too are expected to submit a petition to the Speaker requesting merger of Congress with TRS.
With this, Congress will lose Main Opposition status and there will be no TDP representation in the Assembly.
If this happens, KCR will create a record in the country of running both the Houses of Legislature without a Main Opposition and in the process, achieve his dream of an ‘Opposition-Mukth Telangana’, a feat which will be hard to achieve for anyone in Indian democracy in future.