The Bharat Rashtra Samithi has stepped up its campaign for the graduates’ MLC election covering the combined Mahabubnagar-Rangareddy-Hyderabad constituency, rolling out a second round of division-level meetings and a hard push to register graduate voters on the ground. The main opposition party says its cadres are now signing up voters at camps and help desks across Hyderabad, and it is doing so before the election notification has been issued.

The party finished the first phase of constituency-wide meetings and has now moved to gatherings division by division. Camps have been set up in colonies, major junctions and party offices to identify eligible graduates, help them enroll online and hand them Form-18 applications. Dedicated help desks have been opened to speed up online enrollment.

In the Cantonment area, in-charge Manne Krishank is running a missed-call campaign with a simple pitch: give a missed call and get services. The party says the response from graduates has been strong, with more than 250 voters enrolled every day over the last two days through this method.

Former minister and MLA Talasani Srinivas Yadav is personally supervising the camps division by division, and he has been using them to lay out what he describes as gaps in the election officials’ handling of the process. In other constituencies, leaders are holding sessions with unemployed youth, educated residents and government employees to explain how to get registered.

The paperwork is a major part of the effort. Each division has a target of 2,000 Form-18 applications, and the party says about half that number has already been handed out in many places. Workers are collecting degree certificates, Aadhaar cards and gazetted attested copies along with the forms. The applications are then entered on the Election Commission’s portal through party offices and local centres.

Tuesday’s meetings showed how the drive is being run at the constituency level. In Serilingampally, MLA Madhavaram Krishna Rao, along with Shambhipur Raju, who is also the Medchal district president, briefed party workers. In Khairatabad, Manne Govardhan Reddy held a separate meeting with cadres. In both sessions, leaders told workers to follow a firm plan and make sure every eligible graduate gets registered.

For Hyderabad and the surrounding districts, the stakes are local. The constituency spans Hyderabad, Rangareddy and Mahabubnagar, so the enrollment push is playing out in the capital’s colonies and its neighbouring areas, where the party is asking graduates to act before the registration window closes.

The political message is just as pointed. BRS is building its campaign around the claim that the Congress government failed to deliver on its promises to the unemployed. Party leaders point to the job calendar, the unemployment allowance and the unresolved concerns of government employees as the issues that will shape how graduates vote.

Errabelli Satish Rao, a senior BRS leader, put it bluntly in the party’s statement:

Unemployed youth and students were cheated badly after Congress came to power. In this election, every graduate’s vote will be turned into a weapon to teach the Congress government a lesson.

The party is also turning its fire on the Election Commission. BRS leaders say the commission failed in its core duty of identifying graduate voters and enrolling them, and that the commission has been largely passive. According to the party, its own workers are now doing the work the commission should have done.

Talasani Srinivas Yadav made a similar call to voters, urging graduates to register before the deadline gets close. The message from the party is that the enrollment numbers are a direct result of BRS cadre effort, and that the party is ready to take the fight to the ruling side on the ground.

The party’s confidence is clear. BRS leaders say the Mahabubnagar-Rangareddy-Hyderabad seat will be won by the party, and they claim that in the voter enrollment race, BRS is ahead of both the ruling Congress and the BJP on the ground.

That claim is the central question readers should keep in mind. The report rests on the party’s own account of camps, applications and enrollment numbers. It does not include independent enrollment figures for Congress or the BJP, and it does not name the candidates or set out how the field currently stands. Those details will decide whether this drive turns into a lead on election day, and they are the next things to watch as the notification and registration deadline approach.