The ruling Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) has shifted its focus to dealing with discontent within the party, particularly in the constituencies where aspirants other than the sitting MLAs were nursing hopes of getting an opportunity to test electoral waters, and also to finalise strategies for electioneering after the Election Commission announced the poll schedule on Monday.
It is learnt that the party will focus on meeting the electorate personally through door-to-door visits by tasking it to leaders at different levels and party ranks since it has the advantage of an early start to electioneering. The cadre would be tasked with explaining what the government had done in 10 years and what is in the offing through a manifesto.
The party leadership has renominated 93 sitting MLAs out of its strength of 102, including 88 elected on the party ticket in the 2018 elections and the remaining coming from other parties, including Congress, TDP, AIFB and others by shifting loyalty, in the 119-member Assembly. Of the 115 candidates named by the party so far, BRS was forced to change one candidate with Malkajgiri MLA Mynampalli Hanumantha Rao joining the Congress.
