The State Congress leadership has galvanised itself amid speculation that Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao is all set to dissolve the Assembly and advance the elections.
A crucial meeting of the top leaders to be attended by AICC in-charge R.C. Khuntia, three AICC secretaries deputed by the party and five AICC secretaries from the State besides TPCC president N. Uttam Kumar Reddy, working president Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka, Leaders of Opposition in the Assembly and Council K. Jana Reddy and Md Ali Shabbir and others on Tuesday will discuss threadbare the preparedness of the party to face the elections.
Sources said the first task is to rope in all the seniors and put up a united fight. Accordingly, all the seniors who matter in the party are invited to participate in the deliberations and give suggestions on the way forward. The party’s stand on early elections, whether the proposed bus yatra should be resumed in the event of dissolution of the Assembly, constitution of the campaign, manifesto and propaganda committees and the possibility of naming non-controversial candidates were among other issues that are likely to figure in the meeting, a top TPCC functionary said.
The meeting is aimed at chalking out an action plan on how the party would go to the people to expose, what it claims, the “misrule” of the TRS government. It intends to impress upon voters that early election to the Assembly was a ploy to avoid embarrassment that ruling party will face after it has failed to keep its promises like commissioning of Mission Bhagiratha.
Leaders plan to expose the alleged nexus between the TRS and the BJP.
Even as the party is gearing up for the elections, backroom efforts are on to impress upon the warring groups in the party to sink their differences and join hands to bring the Congress back to power. Some TPCC leaders are holding meetings with seniors and tipping them about certain crucial positions to be given shortly.
A senior leader said the party was exploring the possibility of appointing a BC and a woman as working president in addition to the post presently held by Mr. Bhatti Vikramarka. Vocal leader A. Revanth Reddy is also tipped to get an important position in the next few days.
A delegation led by Mr. Uttam Kumar Reddy is likely to visit Delhi later this week to meet AICC president Rahul Gandhi to affirm that all the party leaders are united and ready to face the elections any time.
