No early polls to Lok Sabha: Shah

Hyderabad: BJP president Amit Shah has made it clear to the state party leadership that there is no possibility of early elections to the Lok Sabha and in Telangana, the party will go it alone. He ruled out alliance with any political party in Telangana.

The party chief also told them that there was no way delimitation of Assembly constituencies could be taken up either in AP or in TS before the general elections are held.

During an informal interaction with media-persons here on Sunday, party state president Dr K Laxman said that Shah had advised them to go ahead with the programmes that they had already lined up to get traction with the people.

Shah has also told them that as per the surveys carried out by the national party leadership, the BJP was better placed in a majority of the assembly segments than the Congress in Telangana. The party's main political rival is the ruling TRS, he reportedly said.

Shah in his interaction said that the party had a clear idea about who are its political rivals in Karnataka, West Bengal, Odisha, and Telangana.
In Telangana, the party will go it alone for the Assembly and Lok Sabha polls in 2019 with its focus mainly fixed on the ruling TRS.

Further, he counselled them not to bother about some ‘good words’ spoken by the visiting Union ministers about the TRS government. The remarks of praise or appreciation should be seen as a part of the ministers’ way of dealing with respective departments, at the government-to-government level.  BJP, as a political party, has its own assessment and views towards the TRS, he noted.

He asked the state party leadership to continue organising the activities in the Assembly constituencies and districts, taking the agenda of the party into the midst of the people. 

Shah said that the programmes of the party could be taken up at a bigger level after June 2018, and he will further take stock of all the issues and the plan of action to be pursued in during his next visit to the State. Meanwhile, the party has already has formed committees in about 779 of the nearly 835 mandals in the State.

Besides, in more than 50 per cent of the mandals, the party has wings including BC, OBC, SC, ST, farmers and women’s morchas. Each wing of the party has been actively involved in organising the party programmes, Laxman said.