Mahbubnagar looks for their MP

The voters are now a smart lot. They know how to make their MPs work, and if they still don't, then embarrass them. That's what a few voters of Mahbubnagar constituency of Telangana Rashtra Samiti chief K Chandrasekhar Rao, have set out to do. They have declared their MP is missing and are looking around for him.

Tribals from Mahbubnagar at the railway station are asking waiting passengers if they have seen this man. They are carrying their MP, K Chandrasekhar Rao's posters to look for him in Delhi because they say they have not seen him in Mahbubnagar ever since he won the election.

"He promised to develop Mahbubnagar constituency, also place the labour problem in Parliament and convinced us to vote for him. Now after winning, he has not come here at all," said a voter from the constituency.

A few days back, a police complaint was also filed in Mahbubnagar, stating KCR was missing.

"Now it is two months since he came to Mahbubnagar. We are going to Delhi to search for him and ask him to work in our constituency," said another resident of Mahbubnagar.

KCR however, is at home in Hyderabad but incommunicado, meeting only few party leaders. The Telangana leader has been in a sulk ever since his party suffered a drubbing in the elections, winning just two Lok Sabha seats.

"People are clever. Just because 10-15 people are roaming around with KCR's photograph, claiming he is missing, people will not believe them," said Harish Rao, MLA, TRS.

Though its soul is the strong sentiment for statehood for Telangana, KCR has been the face of the movement for the last eight years.

KCR's rivals reckon he is now discredited and the attempt is to ensure he does not rise like a phoenix from the political ashes of Elections 2009.