Telangana, the 29th State in the country, is gearing up for 21-day celebrations of the 10th year of its formation starting June 2. But will the celebrations last long? The State faces Assembly elections six months down the line, whose outcome will decide whether the ruling Bharat Rashtra Samiti (BRS) scores a hat-trick, etching its name into the record books, or faces a different fate altogether.
The elections will also decide whether the wheels of fortune turn in favour of the Congress, like it did in the Karnataka Assembly elections helping it return to power, or if the Bharatiya Janata Party achieves the rare distinction of riding to power on its own for the first time in Telangana.
It is not going to be an easy task for all principal players in the coming Assembly elections and also in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls to prove their mettle. The challenge is immense for the K.Chandrasekhar Rao-led BRS, which has set itself an ambitious goal of becoming a pan-India political party.
