High stakes as Telangana goes to municipal polls today

A. Revanth Reddy, the Chief Minister of Telangana, is leading the campaign for the ruling Congress party in the upcoming municipal elections. He aims to solidify the party's hold on urban areas and emphasizes the importance of local governance, asserting that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and former Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao are irrelevant when it comes to resolving civic issues. The BJP seeks to maintain its momentum from winning eight Lok Sabha seats, while the Bharatiya Rashtra Samithi (BRS) aims to reassert itself as the principal opposition. The campaign has seen heated exchanges between leaders of all parties, with some resorting to personal attacks and vulgarity.