Amit Shah, Nadda lead BJP preps amid KCR’s early poll buzz in Telangana

BJP has named its new Telangana campaign ‘Praja Gosa, BJP Bharosa’. Party’s central leaders will hold at least 10 big rallies across the State while PM Modi will hold the closing rally after a month in Hyderabad.

India

oi-Madhuri Adnal

The
BJP
top
brass,
including
Home
Minister
Amit
Shah
and
party’s
national
president
J.P.
Nadda,
held
a
meeting
with
party
leaders
in
Hyderabad
on
Tuesday
as
the
party
revs
up
its
campaign
for
Telangana
Assembly
polls
expected
later
this
year.
During
deliberations,
some
party
leaders
expressed
apprehensions
that
Chief
Minister
K.
Chandrashekar
Rao
may
recommend
early
elections
in
the
State.

BJP’s
Telangana
president
Bandi
Sanjay
Kumar,
State
in-charge
Tarun
Chug,
national
vice-president
D.K.
Aruna,
national
general
secretary
Sunil
Bansal,
Nizamabad
MP
Arvind
Dharampuri,
co-incharge
Sudhakar
Reddy,
K.
Laxman,
G.
Kishan
Reddy,
Vijay
Santhi
and
others
also
attended
the
meeting.

Though
there
is
no
official
word
on
the
content
of
the
deliberations
in
the
meeting,
agency
sources
said
that
it
was
linked
to
the
upcoming
polls.
The
ruling
Bharat
Rashtra
Samithi
(BRS)
and
the
Congress,
too,
have
intensified
their
campaign.

BJP
has
named
its
new
Telangana
campaign
‘Praja
Gosa,
BJP
Bharosa’.
Apart
from
the
rallies
at
the
119
Assembly
seats,
BJP’s
senior
central
leaders
will
hold
at
least
10
big
rallies
across
Telangana.
Prime
Minister
Narendra
Modi
will
hold
the
closing
rally
after
a
month
in
Hyderabad.

BRS
holding
huge
rally
to
show
the
might
in
Khammam
in
Telangana

According
to
reports,
during
the
campaign,
BJP
will
talk
about
the
failures
of
the
BRS
government
as
well
as
highlight
the
welfare
schemes
being
run
by
the
Narendra
Modi-led
government
at
the
Centre
for
the
people
of
Telangana.

Apart
from
this,
the
BJP
will
also
inform
people
about
the
other
Central
schemes
and
how
the
Modi
government
is
working
in
the
interests
of
the
people
of
the
country
and
the
people
of
Telangana
as
well.
Meanwhile,
Kumar
has
been
leading
a
‘padyatra’
(foot
march)
targeting
the
Rao-led
government
in
the
State.

The
meeting
comes
under
the
shadow
of
the
CBI
arresting
Delhi
Deputy
Chief
Minister
Manish
Sisodia
in
the
liquor
scam,
in
which
BRS
MP
K.
Kavitha
too
has
been
named.
The
CBI
has
arrested
a
Hyderabad-based
chartered
accountant
in
the
case
and
the
CBI
chargesheet
has
mentioned
about
his
links
with
Kavitha.

The
last
Assembly
election
in
Telangana
was
held
in
December
2018,
in
which
Rao’s
Telangana
Rashtra
Samithi
(TRS),
rechristened
as
BRS
now,
had
won
the
majority
of
seats
and
formed
the
government.