Telangana election results 2019: Confined to Medak, T Harish Rao proves he’s a real winner

Ch Sushil Rao / TNN / Updated: May 24, 2019, 11:32 IST

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Did the fact that former minister T Harish Rao’s services were restricted to just one Lok Sabha constituency and not utilised all over the state during for campaigning by TRS have a bearing on the poll outcome? The six-time MLA from Siddipet was restricted only to Medak parliamentary constituency, and he did not go beyond it to campaign for party candidates. Initially, his name was not even in the party campaigners’ list.

T Harish Rao

HYDERABAD: Did the fact that former minister T Harish Rao’s services were restricted to just one Lok Sabha constituency and not utilised all over the state during for campaigning by TRS have a bearing on the poll outcome? The six-time MLA from Siddipet was restricted only to Medak parliamentary constituency, and he did not go beyond it to campaign for party candidates. Initially, his name was not even in the party campaigners’ list.
From initially campaigning for TRS candidate Kotha Prabhakar Reddy only in the Siddipet Assembly segment of Medak Lok Sabha seat, he moved to other parts of the constituency, but only later.

Harish did not campaign anywhere else in the state.
He was involved in the struggle for a separate Telangana state along with his uncle K Chandrasekhar Rao for several years. KCR had also got him inducted into the YS Rajasekhar Reddy minister in undivided AP before the TRS pulled out of the Congress-led government to press further for a separate state. After the TRS came to power in 2014, Harish Rao was rewarded with the irrigation portfolio. The Kaleshwaram project took shape with Harish Rao at the helm. However, after the 2018 Assembly elections, Harish Rao was not inducted into the ministry. Lest that sends a wrong signal, KCR also did not induct his son, KT Rama Rao, into the cabinet. Taking to twitter, Harish Rao expressed happiness at Kotha Prabhakar Reddy winning from Medak. “In all the Assembly segments and mandals, people have shown their trust in the leadership of KCR,” he said thanking voters.

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Ch Sushil Rao

Sushil Rao is Editor-Special Reports, at The Times of India, Hyderabad. He began his journalism career at the age of 20 in 1988. He is a gold medalist in journalism from the Department of Communication and Journalism, Arts College, Osmania University, Hyderabad from where he did his post-graduation from. He has been with The Times of India’s Hyderabad edition since its launch in 2000. He has also done an introductory course in film studies from the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune, and also from the Central University of Kerala equipping himself with the knowledge of filmmaking for film criticism. He has authored four books. In his career spanning 34 years, he has worked for five newspapers and has also done television reporting. He was also a web journalist during internet’s infancy in the mid 1990s in India. He covers defence, politics, diaspora, innovation, administration, the film industry, Hyderabad city and Telangana state, and human interest stories. He is also a podcaster, blogger, does video reporting and makes documentaries.

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