The meeting will focus on farmers' issue; BRS trying to make it a grand success to show the party's clout among farmers outside Telangana.
Published Jan 30, 2023 | 3:47 PM ⚊ Updated Jan 30, 2023 | 3:47 PM
KCR unleased a tirade against the BJP-led NDA at the Centre for its lopsided economic policies and its agenda dominated by religious bigotry at the Khammam meet. In picture are K Chandrashekar Rao with Arvind Kejriwal, Bhagwant Mann, Pinarayi Vijayan, D Raja, and Akhilesh Yadav. (Supplied)
Telangana Chief Minister and Bharat Rashtra Samithi supremo K Chandrasekhar Rao will be testing the waters outside the state for the first time at Nanded in the neighbouring Maharashtra state on 5 February.
The public meeting will be a farmers’ convention as KCR would raise the maladies that are afflicting agriculture in India. He would explain how the Telangana model of development might be an answer to the sector.
As the Nanded meeting is the first public meeting outside Telangana, BRS leaders are pulling out all stops to make it a success to send out a message that the party has traction among farmers outside the state too.
Already, Environment Minister A Indrakaran Reddy, who belongs to Adilabad, a district neighbouring Maharashtra, visited Kinwat and other places in the Nanded district.
Government whip Balka Suman, Bodhan MLA Shakeel, TSIIC chairperson G Bala Mallu and Civil Supplies Corporation chairman Ravinder Singh accompanied the minister.
At the public meeting, several leaders in Maharashtra will join the BRS in the presence of KCR. Indrakaran Reddy and his team visited Apparaopet, Pivini, Islapur, and Himayatnagar and interacted with people and inquired about their problems and how BRS would be able to help them in future.
The Nanded meeting is being held close on the heels of a major public meeting organised in Khammam on 18 January where KCR, in the presence of three chief ministers and one former chief minister, unleased a tirade against the BJP-led NDA at the Centre for its lopsided economic policies and its agenda dominated by religious bigotry.
BRS chief and Telangana Chief Minister KCR welcoming Andhra Pradesh leaders to the BRS. (BRS Party/Twitter)
The Khammam meeting appeared to be the launch pad for making the party more broad-based in the country. KCR had then dwelt at length on the danger threatening the secular and democratic fabric of India and underscored the need for all those who believed in the Indian Constitution to come together to end the BJP rule.
The BJP, he said, sought to divide the people on communal lines and abuse and denigrate the statutory institutions created by the Acts of Parliament.
In contrast, according to sources, the Nanded public meeting would exclusively focus on the farmers’ issues and what could be done to make them lead a life of dignity in a country where the ruling dispensation “tried to corporatise” the farm and power sectors, which was nothing but robbing Peter to pay Paul.
After the Nanded meeting, there would be another major public meeting at Parade Ground in Secunderabad on 17 February, KCR’s birthday.
On the same day, he would be inaugurating the newly constructed Secretariat in the presence of chief ministers MK Stalin (Tamil Nadu) and Hemant Soren (Jharkhand), Bihar Deputy Chief Minster Tejashwi Yadav and JD(U) president Rajiv Ranjan Singh (Lalan Singh).
According to sources, KCR wants both the meetings at Nanded and Secunderabad a huge success to prove BRS is a party to reckon with.
BRS chief K Chandrashekar Rao welcomed former Odisha CM Giridhar Gamang and others to the BRS. (BRS Party/Twitter)
As Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be addressing a public meeting at Parade Grounds on 13 February, the chief minister is understood to have asked his party leaders to see that the BRS’s public meeting would be on par or even better to make the BJP know who calls the shots in Telangana.
The chief minister has already constituted the Andhra Pradesh unit of the BRS for which former bureaucrat Thota Chandrasekhar, who belongs to the Kapu community, has been made president.
Another important leader and former minister Ravela Kishore Babu and several others from AP had joined the BRS. Very recently, former Odisha chief minister Giridhar Gamang, his wife Hema Gamang and son Shishir Gamang joined the BRS at Telangana Bhavan in Hyderabad along with several other farmers’ leaders from Odisha.
