TRS government seems to have dropped the proposal to trifurcate GHMC going by its proposal to have 200 divisions. In the past, there had been a proposal to break up the unwieldy GHMC into old MCH, Secunderabad and Cyberabad corporations for both administrative and political reasons, but the plan has now seems to go in vain.
Meanwhile, the BJP, which won the MLC polls and hopes for good results in GHMC, is crying foul over the government’s delaying tactics. “The government is trying to drag the polls fearing a rout,” said TS BJP president G. Kishan Reddy.
However, going by the political parties’ strength in the GHMC area, alliances between the major players in the 200 divisions of the GHMC is inevitable. Even a two-party rule will be difficult and may require three-party alliances in case of a fractured verdict.
Meanwhile the MIM, which had 43 corporators in the 150-division GHMC, still holds the trump card. The party will continues its alliance with the TRS and there is also a likelihood of a TRS-MIM-Congress alliance on one side and a TD-BJP alliance on the other.
In the last 150-strength body, the Congress had 51 corporators, TD 45, MIM 43, BJP six, Praja Rajyam, MBT one and Independents three. In the 200-member body, 40 will be ex-officio members, it is learnt.
“In the city, the divisions will go up from 100 to 110 while in areas forming parts of Ranga Reddy and Medak, they will increase from 50 to 90 divisions, totalling 200. In addition, there will be 24 MLAs, five Lok Sabha MPs, six-seven MLCs and three to five Rajya Sabha members as ex-officio members. Alliances are inevitable,” explained the MIM leader.