Kodithe Mamuluga Undadhu, But Can KCR Hit?

Former Chief Minister K Chandrasekhara Rao met the party cadre from Zaheerabad in his Erravelli Farmhouse. He made some interesting comments there.

“ఇన్ని రోజులుగా నేను మౌనంగా ఉన్నా.. గంభీరంగా చూస్తున్నా.. నేను కొడితే మాములుగా ఉండదు,” KCR said.

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He also announced conducting a huge Public Meeting February-end.

This ‘నేను కొడితే మాములుగా ఉండదు’ comment excited the party cadres completely but the question is if KCR can hit that hard really.

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KCR started TRS in 2001. Barring 2004-06 (when TRS was part of the then Congress Government), BRS mostly remained in the Opposition until the Telangana statehood is granted in 2014.

KCR is always more dangerous in the Opposition than in Power, even his rivals will agree.

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KCR is a leader of grassroots and BRS is a party born out of street protests.

KCR came up with a unique idea to keep the Telangana demand alive and relevance alive.

Whenever there is a decline or stalemate, KCR would ensure a By-election at one place or the other and would fight on the ground. Sometimes, TRS won and sometimes it failed but it always kept the party in the People and their memory.

But then, things changed drastically after 2014.

KCR as the first Chief Minister of Telangana took a serious approach. He confined himself to Pragathi Bhavan while leaving the public attention and media space to his scion KTR completely.

This has created a new problem. When a person in power loses public connection, an inherent ‘monarchism’ develops inside knowingly or unknowingly. Such people would feel themselves privileged and would not mingle with others easily.

In such a situation, they struggle to come out in the Opposition. This is the biggest problem for KCR now.

If at all, KCR transferred the Power to KTR, this would not be a problem. But that did not happen and so, KTR replacing KCR in the Opposition is not practically possible.

And then, there is another problem. Given that the statehood is achieved, the ‘Telangana Sentiment’ started its expiry. Luckily for KCR, Chandrababu came back to Telangana politics in 2018, or else the ‘Telangana Sentiment’ would have reached expiry then itself.

In the 2023 elections, the sentiment factor is nowhere seen.

“KCR కొడితే మాములుగా ఉండదు” definitely is in the past but it is not easy to bring back the old KCR.




However, the history and credibility will prompt us to give an outside chance to KCR because Politics and Power can do anything and everything.