In order to achieve its goal of a hat trick of victories in the telangana Assembly elections, BRS would have to overcome anti-incumbency as well as compete against a resurgent and assured congress and an active BJP. After winning elections in 2014 (in unified Andhra Pradesh), and again in 2018, the chief minister K chandrasekhar Rao-led Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS), formerly known as telangana rashtra samithi (TRS), will face off for a third time. Various BRS government initiatives are allegedly corrupt, according to the state's opposition parties.

Here is a SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats) analysis of the BRS.

STRENGTHS

• kcr is recognized as the sole achiever of statehood for Telangana. Some of the government schemes, such as Rythu Bandhu and kcr Kits, have earned him goodwill. There has been a remarkable change in rural and urban infrastructure and healthcare in the state since his government took over.

• Announcement of the party’s candidates well in advance, even before the poll schedule is out, gave BRS nominees a headstart.

• The BRS government is known as investor-friendly, and the state has attracted huge investments in the past nine years of its rule.

• kcr has led a stable government, which has a solid track record of maintaining law and order in the state.

• hyderabad City, which accounts for almost one-fourth of the total state population, has been recognized as a global city under KCR’s son and IT minister KT Rama Rao’s direct supervision.

• The party’s organizational structures have been strengthened at the grassroots in the past nine years.

• BRS is cash-rich and has no dearth of funds.

• Has a solid base of minority votes.

WEAKNESSES

• Several sitting BRS legislators are facing anti-incumbency and dissidence within the party.

• Allegations of KCR’s ‘family rule’ and corruption charges against cm Rao’s daughter, K Kavitha, may become a poll issue.

• The resounding victory of the congress in the karnataka Assembly polls has changed the political narrative, with the grand old party brimming with confidence while a bruised bjp appears not so formidable in the southern state. This may reduce the vote split, leading to the consolidation of opposing votes to one party – Congress.

OPPORTUNITIES

• Relatively weak opposition parties since a large number of Congress-affiliated leaders and lawmakers have changed their allegiances.

• Internal conflict in both the bjp and the Congress.

• The bjp squandered the momentum that bandi sanjay kumar, a former party leader, had built. replacing him with a Union minister

• In the community, kishan reddy is viewed as the party's vulnerability. The triangular election will favor BRS if congress and the bjp receive an equal share of the opposition vote.

THREATS
• Unyielding bjp and its tough-to-be-tamed leadership.

• Some of the schemes such as agricultural land to sc and st and two-bedroom housing schemes are incomplete. Opposition may make this a poll issue.

• Dalit Bandhu scheme under which Rs 10 lakh is given to sc families may create discontent among other sections.

• Kavitha’s name is mentioned in a charge sheet filed by the ED in the delhi Excise Policy case. This may come to haunt the party.

• Party’s name change from trs to BRS may be projected as giving up Telangana’s identity which has been at the core of its politics hitherto.
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SIBY JEYYA

10/10/2023 08:45 AM