This Is How TRS Will Get Its Mayoral Candidate Elected To GHMC

Is the TRS trying to find a way to get its candidate elected as the Mayor of the GHMC by using an escape route offered by the rule book? Those in the know say yes. The TRS, which falls way too short of the required numbers and cannot have enough numbers even while using up all its ex-officio members, does not want to take the help of the MIM. It feels that by taking MIM’s help, the TRS would be playing into the hands of the BJP, which has been harping that ‘a vote to TRS is a vote to MIM.’

So, it might ask the MIM, with 44 corporators and 10 ex-officio members, to abstain from the voting on Mayor’s post. Thus, the mayor would be elected from among the members present. Thus it can defeat the BJP, which has 48 seats and three ex-officio members. The TRS will have 55 corporators and 31 ex-officio members. Thus the total goes up to 86, which is just about the required quorum. These 86 TRS members plus the BJP’s 51 members will be 137 and this is much more than the quorum of 101 required. So, the TRS will win with some help from the MIM without actually appearing to be colluding with the MIM.

In fact, the TRS has used the same technique to grab the area committees in July 2017. The TRS had won all the 1347 area sabhas in the 150 wards.