Suave and sophisticated, but with an earthy approach to connecting with people, the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) working president and Telangana Information Technology Minister K.T. Rama Rao has emerged as the party’s star campaigner in urban areas, with none to match him from the Opposition either.
Popularly known as KTR, he has the innate ability to connect with both the top minds in the IT sector and the young men and women just trying to get a foothold in the cyber city, as well as women who do not work outside the home or the elderly who have seen generations of politicians, all with unimaginable ease and affection.
The articulation and clarity of thought in his expressions, whether in English, Telugu, Deccani, or even Hindi in its purest form, impresses all. The Telangana dialect that his father, Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao, used in the agitation for Statehood is a weapon that KTR also uses quite often to appeal to the middle classes where he has gained a near-hero image.
