The Telangana Congress party has silently started working on its strategies to emerge as a powerful alternative in the state by 2019 elections, amidst reports that the TRS is gradually eating into its vote bank.
The party think tank, which had a series of discussions with high command recently, has decided to focus first on regaining the confidence of its traditional voters like SCs and STs first before making efforts to attract other sections of voters to its fold.
As part of this, the party leadership has decided to concentrate on 31 reserved Assembly segments in the state to undertake programmes to woo Dalits and Adivasis back to its fold.
As per the AICC vice president Rahul Gandhi’s directive, the party state leadership has begun the exercise of identifying 10 active workers in each Assembly segment to vigorously train them on how to attract party’s traditional voters.
These ten workers will tour the particular constituency extensively by dividing its geographical area among themselves and will select ten more persons in each village and train them as ‘foot soldiers’ to undertake door-to-door visits in Dalit Wadas and ST colonies in order to explain them about welfare schemes implemented by previous Congress governments.
Their proposed campaign will also focus on exposing the unfulfilled promises made by the TRS to SCs and STs such as distribution of three acres of land to each Dalit family.
