BJP meeting in Hyderabad deliberates on roadmap for 5 poll-bound states, 2024 Parliament elections

Subsequently, the presidents and general secretaries from 11 states were summoned to discuss the strategy to be adopted for the Assembly elections in Telangana later this year, along with Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan and Mizoram.

The meeting assumed significance as elections in over 679 Assembly seats in the five states are being perceived as a semi-final round ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, especially after the drubbing the BJP had witnessed in May’s Karnataka Assembly elections.

The leaders are said to have discussed the state-wise strategy to be implemented in the poll-bound states after analysing the reasons behind the electoral gut-punch the party witnessed in Karnataka.

Attended the BJP Southern Regional Consultative Meeting held at BJP state office in Hyderabad under the Chairmanship of National President of @BJP4India Adarniya Shri @JPNadda Ji.

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Decision on election preparation

The senior leaders of the party said that the central leadership would consider every crucial aspect that would have a direct and indirect effect on the elections before preparing the road map for the polls.

It is expected to take into consideration the views expressed by the top representatives of the concerned states, in addition to local factors that might have more influence during the elections,

The leaders — Nadda, BJP general secretary for organisation BL Santhosh, Telangana party affairs deputy in-charge Sunil Bansal, and another in-charge Tarun Chugh — mainly focused on winning more seats from the South in the Lok Sabha elections next year.

The party has already identified about 75-100 seats besides the ones that it wants to retain in the South.

In Telangana, the state leaders want to cash in on the anti-incumbency factor against the BRS government, which has been ruling the state for the last nine years, and emerge victorious.

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To gain from failures of BRS

The failure of the BRS government to waive crop loans to farmers and to give an unemployment dole of ₹3,000 to the youth, the Dharani portal fiasco and the Telangana State Public Service Commission (TSPSC) question paper leak case, among other issues confronting the people, resulted in a dip in the BRS’ graph, said the BJP leaders.

The leaders from Telangana brought to Nadda’s notice that the party had a bright chance to come to power in the state if everyone strived hard and exposed the anti-people policies of the BRS government.

They also pointed out that there was a need to further strengthen the party from the polling-booth level.

In the morning, newly appointed Telangana BJP president G Kishan Reddy received Nadda at the Begumpet airport and accompanied him to the party headquarters.

Nadda felicitated the newly appointed state presidents — Kishan Reddy, Daggubati Purandeswari and others before starting the conclave.

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Eatala Rajender meets A Chandrashekar

BJP MLA and Telangana BJP election management committee chairman Etala Rajender met former state minister A Chandrashekhar in Hyderabad on Sunday and convinced him not to quit the party.

Amid reports that Chandrashekhar was contemplating quitting the BJP, which failed to take action against BRS leaders despite having enough proof, Rajender met him at his house here and persuaded him not to take any decision.

Rajender tried to convince him stating that their sole agenda was to defeat the BRS and its leader, Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao.

After the meeting, Rajender and Chandrashekhar told reporters that they discussed in detail the well-being of the party.

“We sacrificed our posts during the agitation for separate Telangana and fulfilled the dream of separate Statehood,” they said.

Rajender said Chandrashekhar became an MLA at a young age and worked as a minister three times.