The ruling Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) appears to be all prepared to deliver a master stroke on the Opposition Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) by announcing the candidates’ list over the next few days, at a time when Congress has commenced the process for candidates’ selection and BJP is trying to fish in the other two parties’ waters.
Irrespective of the reports that BRS is getting ready to announce its first list with candidates for all but half-a-dozen constituencies out of a total of 119 making rounds in a section of the regional language media, sources in the party have dropped enough indications that the party leadership is on the verge of catching the rival parties off-guard by sending its candidates into the field, much ahead of rivals.
By announcing its candidates much in advance, as it did the last time in 2018 early elections, the BRS leadership is planning to manage the discontent in the party among the aspirants who fail to get the ticket. As the news of party leadership finalising the candidates gained circulation, the party leaders who are sceptical about getting the party ticket this time have stepped up their activity in the constituencies to counter the moves by their rivals within the party.
