Yet another year is coming to a close for Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao and within a few months, he is going to enter the election year.Going by the media reports, KCR appears to have an eventful year, as he has introduced several schemes seemingly for the welfare of various sections of people.But what he has done in the last one year has really failed to impress the people and an anti-establishment wave is silently spreading across Telangana, say political observers.

During the last one year, KCR tried to woo a cross section of people, especially backward classes in the name of distribution of sheep, cattle, implements etc.At the same time, he also tried to impress Brahmins, Christians and Muslims by announcing sops. However, on the ground, these schemes have failed to reach the actual beneficiaries.The chief minister sought to win over the Muslims by getting a bill passed in the assembly increasing their reservations from four to 12 per cent and that of STs by three per cent. But in reality, the promise remained on paper.

The double bedroom scheme has not taken off in several constituencies, while the KG to PG scheme remained a non-starter.The irrigation project works seem to be on full swing but are facing several legal hurdles. The government received setbacks in courts with regard to payment of compensation for project evacuees.The increasing number of farmers’ suicides has created a lot of unrest among the rural masses.

The biggest issue that has generated a lot of negative impact on the TRS government was the Nerella incident in which the police tortured Dalits and OBCs for opposing the sand mafia of the TRS leaders.The lack of distribution of land to Dalits and fighting between the Lambadas and Adivasis are also turning against the government.Yet, KCR sought to overcome the negative factors by putting up big shows like the public meeting at Warangal on the occasion of TRS plenary, Global Entrepreneurship Summit, launch of Metro Rail in Hyderabad, World Telugu Conference etc to divert the people’s attention.

He thought by making cosmetic changes in the city and bringing lakhs of people from rural areas to Hyderabad, he would get a tremendous boost to his image.It remains to be seen how far he would turn the tide in his favour in the next one year.

The Telugu Desam Party and the YSR Congress party have found yet another issue to attack each another – fraud by Bitcoin Software Services Private Limited, started by one Saikam Ramakrishna Reddy.The TDP has alleged that Ramakrishna Reddy was a YSRC leader.He had collected Rs 200 crore from people by promising that he would pay Rs 10 lakh if Rs 10,000 was deposited with him for three years.

He also offered Rs 1 crore returns in three years for a deposit of Rs 1 lakh.TDP leader Varla Ramaiah said YSRC president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy should stop his padayatra and visit the houses of the victims to console them.On Friday, YSRC official spokesman TJR Sudhakar Babu made a counter allegation stating that Ramakrishna Reddy was in fact a close associate of Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu and his son Nara Lokesh.

He pointed out that Reddy had used the images of Naidu and Lokesh in the promotional material of his Bitcoin organisation.He dared Ramaiah for an open debate at the Prakasam Barrage on January 1 to prove who was closer to Reddy.”If you cannot prove your allegations, the TDP has to tender an unconditional apology to Jagan or face legal action,” Sudhakar Babu said.He admitted that Reddy was once a member of the YSRC Seva Dal, but was sacked after his corrupt practices came to the fore.

The YSR Foundation had also served a legal notice on him and Reddy himself had gone public claiming that he had no links with the YSRCP, Babu said.