Kharge also said that several senior leaders from other parties would join the Congress and strengthen the hands of the people.
Published Jul 02, 2023 | 3:41 PM ⚊ Updated Jul 02, 2023 | 3:58 PM
File photo of Mallikarjun Kharge. (Twitter)
Ahead of Rahul Gandhi’s public meeting in the Khammam district of Telangana, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Sunday, 2 July, said the party’s blueprint for a “new dawn” in the state was ready and that 3.8 crore people of the state want change.
He also said that the Congress was proud of its collective leadership in Telangana.
Rahul Gandhi will sound the poll bugle in the state where Assembly elections are slated in the next few months.
“3.8 Crore people of Telangana want change. Shri Rahul Gandhi’s #TelanganaJanaGarjana grand rally shall be voicing their shared aspirations, today,” Kharge said on Twitter.
“The Congress party is proud of the collective leadership of Telangana Congress. Our blueprint for a new dawn in Telangana is ready,” he added.
“We are strongly committed to the development and progress of Telangana based on social justice and equity,” the Congress chief said.
Kharge also said that several senior leaders from other parties would join the Congress and strengthen the hands of the people.
Congress State Legislature Party (CLP) leader Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka’s ‘padayatra’ would also conclude at the rally.
“We congratulate CLP leader, Shri @BhattiCLP on the completion of our 1360 km long Padayatra, today at Khammam,” the Congress chief said.
3.8 Crore people of Telangana want change.
Shri @RahulGandhi's #TelanganaJanaGarjana grand rally shall be voicing their shared aspirations, today.
We congratulate CLP leader, Shri @BhattiCLP on the completion of our 1360 km long Padayatra, today at Khammam.
Several senior… pic.twitter.com/MSYwlR3mrF
— Mallikarjun Kharge (@kharge) July 2, 2023
Gandhi would felicitate Vikramarka, who began his foot march near Adilabad, covering 1,360 km in 108 days as on Saturday, party sources said.
At the meeting, former Khammam MP Ponguleti Srinivasa Reddy would formally join the Congress.
Srinivasa Reddy and ex-minister Jupally Krishna Rao recently announced their decision to join the party.
The victory of the Congress in recent Karnataka elections has given a boost to the party unit
in neighbouring Telangana.
Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) president and MP A Revanth Reddy has said the party would end the BRS rule in the state with the rally in Khammam.
Reddy said the Congress would sound the bugle for elections with the Khammam rally and expressed confidence that more people would attend the meeting compared to the number of people who participated at the public meeting organised earlier by the ruling BRS.
Aiming to win the Assembly polls scheduled to be held later this year in Telangana, the Congress seeks to make today’s rally a grand success.
The party is also seeking to ward off the challenge from the BJP, which had won two assembly by-polls and came up with a good performance in the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) elections.
According to Congress sources, several leaders suffocating in the BRS and the BJP were contemplating joining the Congress. They would come out openly and don the Congress robes after Sunday’s public meeting.
Around mid-July, former minister Jupally Krishna Rao would join the Congress at a meeting likely to be attended by party general secretary Priyanka Gandhi.
The Congress has been the major Opposition party in Telangana since the state’s formation in 2014.
(With PTI inputs)
