Hyderabad: TRS president and Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao will call a few graduate voters over the phone and seek their votes for party candidates fighting the March 14 MLC polls for two seats.
Official sources in TRS said the CM took this decision at the party’s MLC election strategy meeting’ held with in-charge ministers and senior party leaders on Wednesday. This is for the first time that the CM will be speaking directly to voters over the phone, seeking votes for the TRS in the elections.
The decision came as a surprise to party leaders and cadre who said that it showed the importance being given by the party chief to the MLC polls. In the past, the party never took the MLC elections seriously.
Rao is learnt to have directed ministers and party leaders to provide him with the phone numbers of graduate voters in six districts that are going to the polls. The CM asked them to categorise the voters as graduates, postgraduates, private employees, government…