With the foundation day of TRS barely 20 days away, expectations are high in the cadre of being rewarded with party posts ahead of the event.
The TRS will decide the venue for the celebration next week but, sources said, it will be politically significant for the party this time because it will take place days before the State Government takes up distribution of cheques to farmers as part of investment support scheme for agriculture.
Within the party, there is clamour for organisational posts which have not been filled for the last four years. Barring 66 posts of TRS general secretaries, secretaries and joint secretaries which were filled a few months ago, the party is yet to take up appointments to several of its organs, including the key politburo.
The party has also not appointed office-bearers of frontal organisations, except the chairpersons for bodies representing women, Scheduled Caste, backward classes, minorities and youth.
The committees for new districts and Assembly constituencies also did not exist while some of the presidents of erstwhile undivided districts discharged dual responsibilities as chairmen of State-level corporations. In these circumstances, the in-charge Ministers for districts were supposed to take up appointments to nominated posts on the basis of recommendations by the MLAs.
The TRS has so far appointed chairmen for 56 State-level corporations, commissions and other bodies but directors or members for them were not there though the party MPs and MLAs forwarded lists of second rung leaders in their constituencies to the Ministers over two years ago.
There was scope to nominate at least seven directors or members in the corporations but it was not taken up. In the case of SC Corporation, its chairman Pidamarthi Ravi was initially appointed for two years up to December 2016 and his term was extended by three years after that but the corporation had no directors.
The same was the case with some other corporations where the term of the chairmen was nearing completion but directors were not appointed.
The situation was even more pathetic for the cadre in 25 constituencies where the MLAs from other parties switched over to the TRS and threw their weight behind their own supporters.
