Shaking off the winter chills, BRS is warming up to Lok Sabha polls in Telangana

The party leadership has approved a two-phase interaction with key leaders of the parliamentary constituencies and their Assembly segments to develop a poll strategy.

ByRaj Rayasam

Published Dec 30, 2023 | 1:00 PMUpdatedDec 30, 2023 | 1:00 PM

BRS Lok Sabha poll strategy

Emerging from the grasp of winter’s chill, the BRS party is now gearing up for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls.

The party has decided to convene meetings of leaders, Lok Sabha segment-wise, starting 3 January. It believes that the setback in the recent Assembly election is now behind it and that there is no point in remaining Janus-faced any longer.

Party working president and former minister KT Rama Rao will conduct the meetings to prepare the party machinery for the Lok Sabha polls. The party needs to stage a comeback with a bang, or it will run the risk of slipping into the realms of oblivion.

Party supremo and former chief minister K Chandrashekar Rao has approved the schedule and asked KTR and other senior leaders to organise meetings and galvanise the party leaders into action mode.

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Developing poll strategy

The meetings, to be held in Telangana Bhavan, will discuss at length the strategy to be adopted in the Parliamentary elections. The leadership will elicit the opinion of key leaders in a departure from tradition for evolving a fool-proof action plan to face the Lok Sabha elections.

The party will focus on the Assembly segments where the BRS candidates lost with a slender majority in the recent Assembly elections. The party would be very serious about winning the maximum number of seats. “We will work to win,” an official press release said on Friday, 29 December.

After the finalisation of the strategy, the party would hit the ground running to campaign for the Lok Sabha polls. “This time, the campaign would be very intensive,” the party said.

Those organising the meetings will include, apart from KTR, party general secretary K Keshava Rao, former Speaker Madhusudhana Chary, former ministers T Harish Rao, Kadiyam Srihari, Pocharam Srinivas Reddy, G Jagdish Reddy, V Prashanth Reedy, and S Niranjan Reddy.

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Lok Sabha segment-wise meetings

The meetings with Lok Sabha segments-wise party leaders are scheduled to be held in two phases. The first phase will begin on 3 January, extending till 12 January, while the second phase will begin after a gap of three days for Sankranti.

The first meeting will be held for Adilabad on 3 January. It will be followed by Karimnagar (4 January), Chevella (5 January), Peddapalli (6 January), Nizamabad (7 January), Zaheerabad (8 January), Khammam (9 January), Warangal (10 January), Mahabubabad (11 January), and Bhongir (12 January).

After the Sankranti break, the second phase will begin with Nalgonda on 16 January, Nagarkurnool (17 January), Mahabubnagar (18 January), Medak (19 January), Malkajgiri (20 January), Secunderabad, and Hyderabad (21 January).

The party is inviting all the important leaders in the Lok Sabha constituency concerned for the meetings. They will include sitting MPs, MLAs of Assembly segments, MLCs, former MLAs, former MPs, ZP Chairmen, former ZP Chairmen, Mayors, former Mayors, Municipal Chairmen, former chairmen of various corporations in charge of the constituencies, presidents of party district units.

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