Hyderabad: Telangana Rashtra Samithi's (TRS) Working President and state Municipal Administration Minister K. T. Rama Rao on Tuesday asked party cadres to be ready for elections to the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) likely to be held anytime after the second week of November.
Addressing ministers, legislators, GHMC corporators, and party in charges, he exuded confidence that the TRS will retain power in the GHMC with a huge majority.
KTR, as the minister as popularly known, told the party leaders that all surveys had forecast a TRS win with a thumping majority. He said the surveys have given the party 91 seats in the 150-member body.
In 2016, the ruling TRS had scored a landslide victory with 99 seats, washing away the main opposition Congress and the then Telugu Desam Party-Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP-TDP) alliance.
The All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) had emerged as the second largest party with 44 seats.
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KTR, however, told the meeting that performance of 15 per cent corporators is not satisfactory and advised them to improve the same by remaining amidst people to solve their problems.