The ruling TRS which was way miles ahead of all other parties with its huge publicity blitz in GHMC elections till recently, is suddenly seen nowhere after the deadline for filing GHMC nominations ended on January 17. The reason, as many as 888 TRS candidates filed nominations for 150 GHMC seats. Barring 150 official candidates, the rest 730 candidates are in fray as rebels giving sleepless nights to TRS leadership.
With this, all the top TRS leaders from KTR to ministers and TRS MPs, MLAs to MLCs, went into a huddle unable to know how to pacify rebels to withdraw their nominations. The party which was confident of winning 100 seats till recently, is worried that rebels may play spoilsport and it would be difficult to win even 50 seats in the present situation due to split of votes if rebels refuse to withdraw their nominations.
The Opposition parties are seen enjoying at the plight of TRS saying that the party encouraged heavy defections from all parties before GHMC polls and admitted all leaders left, right and centre promising tickets and paying the price now for not in a position to satisfy all these defected leaders with tickets.
They say the TRS has fell in it’s own trap in a bid to weaken other parties. The TRS top leaders who are busy pacifying rebels to withdraw nominations are finding no time to take up campaigning activities at this crucial juncture.