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BJP sees fertile ground in TS for growth
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders and workers in Telangana seem to be excited over their party national chief Amit Shah’s three-day visit beginning from Monday and leaving no stone unturned to make the programme a grand success. Telangana is one of the focus States for BJP for coming to power and Amit Shah’s visit is meant to give a push to achieve that goal.
Shah’s three-day visit to Nalgonda starts today; party leaders exude confidence of BJP winning the 2019 elections in the State
Hyderabad: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders and workers in Telangana seem to be excited over their party national chief Amit Shah’s three-day visit beginning from Monday and leaving no stone unturned to make the programme a grand success. Telangana is one of the focus States for BJP for coming to power and Amit Shah’s visit is meant to give a push to achieve that goal.
The BJP’s Central leadership has identified Telangana along with other States like Odisha, West Bengal and Karnataka where the party can emerge stronger, according to BJP State president K Laxman. He said the party would go it alone in Telangana, where the Assembly elections are due in 2019. Shah’s visit to Telangana is part of the 95-day nationwide campaign undertaken by him from Jammu to reach out to the poor, rural populace and to strengthen the party organisation from grassroots level, he said.
The BJP chief would spend all the three days in Nalgonda district and interact with the poor and marginalised sections. He would also take part in a community lunch, said Laxman. “It's a fertile political land for the BJP in Telangana. Now, our national president is also focusing on Telangana. In the last one year, this is the fourth time our national president is visiting the State),” Laxman said.
Laxman was appointed State BJP president in April last year. “He is trying to reach out to rural masses in remote villages. He would like to go to weaker sections, Dalits and backward classes,” the BJP leader said. The leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, corruption-free governance of the NDA government, its major decisions like surgical strikes on terror launch pads across the LoC and GST, besides numerous welfare schemes would help the party reach out to the people of Telangana and to win elections, he said.
When pointed out that the BJP has traditionally been strong in Hyderabad and other urban areas in Telangana, he said the saffron outfit had now become a party of all. To strengthen the party machinery at the polling booth level, the BJP is launching a campaign from May 29 to June 12 to reach every village in the TRS-ruled State.
The BJP fought 2014 elections in Telangana in alliance with the Telugu Desam Party (TDP), but it would like to go alone now, he said. “My slogan is ‘grow alone, go alone’, because people have seen the Congress and lost faith in that party. The TDP is also weakened now.
All its MLAs in Telangana have moved to the TRS. People feel BJP alone can become an alternative to the TRS,” the BJP leader said. No other party except BJP was fighting against MIM and the TRS government’s move to increase quota in jobs and education for backward Muslims, he added.
