Industries Minister and Bharat Rashtra Samiti working president K.T. Rama Rao has expected elections to Telangana Assembly as scheduled in December and said his party would return to power after that for a third time, leaving the rivals nowhere near to give a semblance of fight.
In an interview to select media persons on the eve of the twenty second foundation day celebrations of BRS, which was the first after the party underwent name change, Mr. Rao said the rival parties were in total disarray to pose any challenge to the BRS. The position of BJP which made tall claims of forming government was so pathetic that it will forfeit deposit in one hundred out of 119 Assembly constituencies in the State. In the last elections, it lost deposit in 108 constituencies, he recalled.
Asked if there was any chance of him stepping into the shoes of his father and Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao, he shot back that the former would only be seventy years old when the term of the next BRS government came to close. He will have several years of service left.
