Pro-Minority, Strengthing Of Bonds With AIMIM Will Pay Rich Dividents To KCR In Coming Assembly Elections

Hyderabad, Aug 27 (Hydnow): The image of Chief Minister K.Chandrasekhar Rao as a pro-minority political entity with secular credentials and further strengthening of bonds with the AIMIM  are expected to pay rich dividends to the ruling party at the hustings.  Even as minority voters have a sizable presence in 40 segments, their support in 33 segments is viewed as all-important for the BRS to romp home 

KCR has been able to maintain friendly relations with the AIMIM during its first term in power from 2014-2018.  The relations between the two parties were strengthened further and turned more pronounced during 2018 to 2023 with both parties finding a common adversary in BJP at the Centre. 

The BJP has been targeting both the KCR and AIMIM as part of its grand agenda to gain a firm foothold in the State. The KCR however stonewalled the BJP from making deep inroads much to the advantage of the AIMIM. In its battle for hegemony in its own bastion, the AIMIM could find a strong ally in the BRS to ward off the BJP from building any support bases in the twin cities. 

The Congress, which has for quite some time been projecting itself as the champion of minorities, has been indulging heavily in AIMIM-bashing and in the process has lost the faith of Muslim minorities, who remained loyal to the AIMIM outside the seven seats it had been holding in Hyderabad city. 

Mohammed Shabbir Ali, who is the lone identifiable minority face in the Congress, is the main rival to Chief Minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao, who will be contesting from the Kamareddy Assembly constituency.  Shabbir Ali had contested from Kamareddy as many as eight times but won only two times.  The YSR wave bailed out the Congress including Shabbir Ali in 2004.  Thereafter he continued to draw a blank. 

KCR won the hearts of the minorities with its anti-BJP stand on the no-confidence motion moved by the opposition.  It also strongly opposed the BJP-sponsored Uniform Civil Code.  Popular schemes implemented by the State government such as Shaadi Mubarak, government assistance to minority students seeking to pursue higher studies overseas, the Rs. 1 lakh financial aid to minorities, and English medium schools for minority students have all taken the BRS closer to the minorities in a big way. 

As for the constituencies, the AIMIM held the Assembly seats of Bahadurpura, Charminar, Yakutpura, Malakpet, Nampally, Karwan, and Chandrayangutta in 2009, 2014, and 2018.  The minority vote share in these segments ranges from 50 percent to 85 percent. 

The Assembly segments of Goshamahal, Sanathnagar, Musheerabad, Khairatabad, Jubilee Hills, Secunderabad cantonment, and Amberpet – all in Hyderabad city have considerable presence of minority votes, ranging from 20 percent to 25 percent. 

Besides this, the minority vote accounts for 15 to 20 percent in 15 other segments outside Hyderabad, these are Rajendranagar, Maheswaram, Nizamabad (Urban), Bodhan, Mudhole, Mahbubnagar, Sangareddy, Adilabad, Warangal East, Nirmal, Banswada, Karimnagar, Zaheerabad, Tandur and Vikarabad.  etc. (Hydnow) 

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