The meeting assumes significance as it is being held following the outcome of the Karnataka elections where the Congress won hands down.
Published May 16, 2023 | 2:33 AM ⚊ Updated May 16, 2023 | 2:33 AM
The meeting will be attended by all BRS MLAs, MPs, and MLCs. (Twitter)
Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao will preside over a joint meeting of the BRS Legislature and Parliamentary party at BRS Bhavan in Hyderabad at about 2 pm on Wednesday, 17 May.
The meeting assumes significance as it is being held immediately after the outcome of the Karnataka Assembly elections where the Congress, which is the principal political rival to BRS in Telangana, won hands down.
The meeting will be attended by all BRS MLAs, MPs, and MLCs where the party president is expected to make a deep dissection of the Karnataka verdict and look for factors that might impact the Telangana elections later this year.
The BRS has an advantage in Telangana as there are two Opposition parties in the fray — the Congress and the BJP — which are rising almost equally, kindling hope among the BRS workers that the anti-KCR votes would be split between the two parties, helping the BRS romp home.
The BRS supremo is also expected to cut through various layers of Karnataka’s electoral verdict, particularly in the wake of his ally JD(S) being badly mauled in the electoral battle, with its strength plummeting by half.
KCR, on several occasions, had said that HD Kumaraswamy should become the chief minister of Karnataka, but it did not happen as the Congress breached the JD(S) vote bank of Vokkaligas in the Old Mysore area.
According to sources, the BRS supremo will also might take into consideration what would happen should one of the two Opposition parties rise fast, pushing the other down. This is a scenario KCR would want to avoid at all costs as it would be detrimental to his interests.
On the other hand, the BRS might tweak its national policy of insisting on keeping the Congress at bay in forging a national alliance in the wake of the grand old party has more or less become a sine qua non and might even grow to the extent of leading it by virtue of its pan-India presence.
It remains to be seen how KCR would want to take his party forward in other states as the emergence of the Congress in Karnataka is not good news, as it might set off a domino effect in Telangana.