The 12 months 2022 noticed the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) opening a brand new chapter in its 20-year-old historical past because it rechristened itself as Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) with the occasion supremo Ok. Chandrasekhar Rao eyeing a key position in nationwide politics.

With the formal launch of BRS and the current opening of its central workplace in New Delhi, the occasion is gearing as much as develop its actions to completely different elements of the nation.

KCR, as Rao is popularly recognized, can be projecting the Telangana improvement mannequin to the remainder of the nation and current his imaginative and prescient to copy the identical in different states.

The approaching 12 months will decide to what extent it is going to affect nationwide politics however lots will rely on the end result of the Meeting elections in Telangana scheduled in the direction of the tip of 2023.

If KCR leads the occasion to a 3rd consecutive time period in energy and turns into the primary chief in South India to attain a hat-trick, it’s more likely to bolster the possibilities of the BRS establishing itself as a power in another states forward of the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.

From a pacesetter who led the motion and achieved statehood for Telangana to changing into the primary chief minister of India’s youngest state and successful a second time period in energy, the 68-year-old is now seeking to set a brand new file and don the mantle of a nationwide chief.

Whereas launching the BRS, KCR gave the slogan of “ab ki baar kisan sarkar”, thus hinting that farmers and agriculture can be on the core of his occasion’s technique because it seems to make inroads in different states.

As a part of his efforts to emerge as a nationwide chief, the BRS chief distributed compensation of Rs 3 lakh every to the kin of the farmers killed in the course of the motion in opposition to the three farm legal guidelines of the Centre. The Telangana cupboard accredited Rs 22.50 crore for distribution among the many households of the 750 farmers killed throughout a 13-month-long stir.

Each time, the BRS chief highlights the progressive schemes underneath implementation in Telangana for improvement of agriculture and the welfare of farmers. He has predicted {that a} non-BJP authorities will come to energy on the Centre and that it’ll present free electrical energy to farmers throughout the nation.

Claiming that Telangana is the one state within the nation supplying 24 hours free electrical energy to farmers, KCR has already introduced that when a non-BJP authorities involves energy on the Centre, this can be prolonged to your entire nation.

KCR has additionally been highlighting two different main schemes – Rythu Bandhu and Rythu Beema. Beneath Rythu Bandhu, the federal government is offering funding help of Rs 10,000 per acre yearly no matter the extent of land owned by a farmer whereas underneath Rythu Beema it’s offering compensation of Rs 5 lakh to the household of a farmer after his dying no matter could also be the reason for dying.

The BRS chief has additionally been highlighting how Telangana achieved large progress in eight years.

Telangana’s Gross State Home Product (GSDP) greater than doubled to Rs 11.55 lakh crore whereas the per capita earnings elevated to Rs 2.75 lakh in 2022 from Rs 1.24 lakh in 2014.

Overcoming electrical energy scarcity to make sure round the clock electrical energy to all sectors, huge improve in meals manufacturing by finishing a number of irrigation tasks together with Kaleshwaram, thought-about the world’s largest elevate irrigation mission and the rise in annual IT exports to Rs 1.83 lakh crore from Rs 57,000 crore in 2014 are projected as the opposite achievements.

“When a brand new state can obtain this in such a brief span of time, why can’t the remainder of the nation obtain this,” KCR typically poses the query at public conferences.

KCR additionally claims that no different state can compete with Telangana when it comes to the welfare schemes for numerous sections of individuals. Final 12 months, it launched one other progressive scheme, Dalit Bandhu, for the socio-economic empowerment of Dalits. Beneath this scheme, each Dalit household can be offered Rs 10 lakh help to start out any enterprise of its selection.

These schemes usually are not solely attracting nationwide consideration however just a few villages in neighbouring Karnataka and Maharashtra bordering Telangana have even demanded that they be merged with Telangana in order that farmers and different sections of individuals can reap the advantages of its schemes.

The BRS is primarily seeking to develop from these states and likewise taking a look at Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu.

In tune with the precedence to the agriculture sector and farmers, BRS launched a kisan cell on the day of the launch. KCR appointed the chief of the Nationwide Farmers’ Union, Gurnam Singh Charudi of Haryana, as president of the BRS Kisan Cell.

The occasion has drawn up plans to go aggressive to develop after Christmas. As a part of this the BRS Kisan Cell can be launched subsequent week in Punjab, Haryana, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Odisha, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.

BRS leaders say that many former MLAs and senior political leaders with their groups and followers from numerous states of North, East and Central India are having discussions with KCR. The BRS chief is explaining to them what sort of insurance policies must be adopted in line with the aspirations of the individuals there following the geographical, social and cultural circumstances of their states.

Whereas KCR has lengthy been aspiring for a job in nationwide politics by bringing collectively like-minded events for a 3rd different, his plans didn’t take-off apparently because of variations with different regional leaders over the composition of the proposed entrance.

Conscious of the truth that with the restricted Lok Sabha seats (17) that Telangana has, he won’t be able to affect nationwide politics, KCR got here out with the concept of BRS. Working with the 2024 Lok Sabha polls as its goal, the occasion can be specializing in 100 Lok Sabha seats.

The BRS hopes to affect the nation with its socio-economic and political agenda by successful at the least 50-80 seats. However, it stays to be seen what technique the occasion will undertake to realize this goal.

“BRS will stay a fallacy except the occasion wins seats outdoors Telangana. Presently, each state has a unique dynamic and there are regional forces to cater to the expectations of the individuals there,” observes political analyst Palvai Raghvendra Reddy.

“KCR is wishing to go nationwide with farmers as a key agenda. However prior to now elections held throughout India we have now not seen farmers alone deciding the destiny of an election, besides in western Uttar Pradesh in the course of the time of Chaudhary Charan Singh and as soon as in Punjab in 2012. We’ve got seen how the farmers’ agenda has faltered in UP on this 12 months’s Meeting polls,” he stated.

The BRS will face challenges in each state because it seeks allies to realize its goal.

“The primary main problem earlier than KCR can be to get outstanding allies throughout states/areas who can be keen to contest on BRS occasion tickets. We’re a rustic of divergent teams and differing sentiments, and we should wait and see who will align with the BRS within the fast future,” stated Reddy.

“Although the Janata Dal (Secular) management was seen standing with KCR in the course of the launch of the BRS, it’s unlikely they might contest as BRS within the upcoming Karnataka Meeting elections; and Gowdas usually are not that massive an element from Karnataka within the parliamentary elections,” the analyst stated.