TRS will win 95-105 seats in next Assembly elections: KCR

Hyderabad: Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao has predicted that the Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) will win 95 to 105 seats in the next assembly elections. He was replying to a a question on the next assembly polls in the State at a news conference in Pragati Bhavan here on Tuesday.

Chandrshekhar Rao disagreed with a questioner who wanted to know whether the Assembly elections in the State would be advanced. There is no point in discussing it now and there is no need to advance the polls too. “I can say that TRS will get 95-105 seats positively’, he said.

To another question on providing land plots to journalists, the Chief Minister said there case pending the Supreme Court could end in a month or so, as far as he knew. He felt that a separate act could be brought to allocate house plots to journalists and MLAs too. On the prospects of AIMIM in Uttar Pradesh polls, he said the MIM president Asaduddin Owaisi was trying to grow as the leader of muslim community in the country. His party had contested elections in different seats and got seats too. “He is the son of Hyderabad and if he is getting recognition as a leader, I am happy as a person from Telangana”, Rao said.

On the statements of the BJP and the Congress opposing the GOMs No 317, following which over 50,000 employees were transferred to different zones, Chandrashekhar Rao said the GO would ensure equitable distribution of jobs to local people. The GO would ensure that local people get 95 per cent of the jobs in their zones. Opposing the GO would only lead to a situation where people from other zones getting jobs in districts. The BJP and the Congress were opposing it for political purposes only and they were blind to the fact that it would benefit the local youth immensely.