As usually, the TRS party couldn’t pull out its Telangana sentiment or the Andhra tag of the TDP in the upcoming MLC elections, because this time the TDP is not contesting the elections. It is supporting the BJP candidates. The TRS can’t criticize the BJP directly keeping in view of the NDA government help and support needed for the state development. But, at the same time it can’t ignore the BJP candidates. So, it found a new formula to face the BJP candidates.

It connects the BJP candidates with Chandrababu Naidu, as the TDP is backing them. TRS which is projecting him as a sinner of Telangana state is campaigning that voting for the BJP candidates is voting for Chandrababu Naidu. While it carefully avoids directly criticizing the BJP or the NDA government, at the same time is trying to defeat the BJP candidates with this idea.

If the BJP candidates win these elections and join the Telangana Legislative Council, how Chandrababu Naidu can influence them anyway? They belong to other state and other party. They will follow their own party’s instructions and ideology but not TDP’s or Chandrababu Naidu’s. So, the TRS arguments are meaningless. It is just intended to ensure the TRS candidates win the MLC elections. The same thumb rule can be applied to the BJP’s argument-‘voting the TRS candidates is voting to the MIM party.