Telangana Rashtra Samithi working president and minister K T Rama Rao’s announcement that political strategist Prashant Kishor might be joining the Congress party, but his organisation Indian Political Action Committee (I-PAC) would work for the TRS in the next elections, came as a blessing in disguise for the Bharatiya Janata Party.
The party leaders are now on cloud nine, as with one statement, KTR has virtually eliminated the Congress from the race for power in Telangana and it would give a lot of clarity to the people that the fight is now between the TRS and the BJP straightaway.
BJP officials spokesman K Krishna Sagar Rao said it is now almost official that TRS and Congress party will be in a pre-poll alliance in Telangana State for the next assembly elections.
“Yesterday's meeting between chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao and Prashant Kishor and their subsequent statements have established that this alliance is firmed up between KCR and Sonia Gandhi,” he said.
Now, the BJP will be fighting TRS and Congress alliance in the next elections.
“I am certain that 1+1 will turn out to be a zero. This uncouth, corrupt and opportunistic alliance will be rejected by the people of Telangana State,” he said.
The BJP spokesman wondered what PCC chief Revanth Reddy would do now.
“Will he be facilitating Congress to be a tail-ender alliance partner with TRS in the coming days? Doesn't this move be a permanent death blow to Congress in the state?” he asked.
He said Prashant Kishor is a chronic flirter of multiple parties and ideologies.
“He is an unstable element and impossible to be loyal to any one ideology. He will be the last nail in the coffin of Indian opposition parties’ agenda for 2024,” Rao said and added that the BJP was ready fight the next elections, as the singular alternative to TRS.
