Positioning oneself as a challenger to Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) president K. Chandrashekar Rao is never an easy job. The Telangana chief minister is a brilliant orator and is blessed with great political acumen. But Uttam Kumar Reddy, a retired Air Force pilot who leads the Congress in Telangana, loves a good fight.
A former minister, Reddy is close to the Congress high command. Even when many of his fellow Congress leaders went soft on KCR, Reddy continued to be critical of the TRS government. He played a key role in the distribution of tickets for the assembly elections and also in forming the People’s Front, an alliance of the Congress along with the Telugu Desam Party, the CPI and the Telangana Jana Samithi. Reddy has now emerged as the face of the opposition in Telangana. His ‘praja chaitanya bus yatra’ has been hugely popular. He is also active on social media.
In an exclusive interview with THE WEEK, Reddy says he is confident about the Congress-led front winning a majority in the assembly elections. Excerpts:
The Congress and the TDP have been rivals for more than three decades. How confident are you about vote transfer between the two parties and the success of your coalition?
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