Published Feb 27, 2023 | 9:05 PM ⚊ Updated Feb 27, 2023 | 9:05 PM
Union minister Amit Shah has called for a high-level meeting with top Telangana BJP leaders on 28 February. (Twitter)
Union Home Minister Amit Shah will hold a crucial meeting with senior BJP leaders from Telangana on Tuesday, 28 February, in New Delhi.
One of the expected agendas is to chalk out an action plan to be adopted for the next Assembly elections in the state this year.
Senior leaders from Telangana, including state party president Bandi Sanjay Kumar, Union Tourism Minister G Kishan Reddy, two MLAs — M Raghunandan Rao and Eatala Rajender — two other MPs — Dharmapuri Arvind and Soyam Babu Rao — and other leaders received calls from Shah’s office, asking them to present at his office by 12 noon on Tuesday.
Since the party has already discussed in detail “Mission 90” in Telangana and recently conducted street-corner meetings across the state, Shah is expected to collect the response from people about these meetings.
The party has earlier conducted meetings with full-time convenors, vistaraks, palaks and prabharis, and examined booth-level functioning.
Realising that it’s not easy to contest the elections against BRS — led by Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao — and the Congress in the state, the BJP leadership in New Delhi is leaving no stone unturned in bringing the party to power in Telangana.
Two party in-charges — Tarun Chugh and Sunil Bansal — are regularly visiting the state to interact with the leaders and discuss strategies to emerge victorious in the Assembly elections.
The meeting also assumed significance in the wake of rumours that the CBI is likely to arrest BRS’s Kavitha in connection with the Delhi liquor scam, following the arrest of Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia in the same case on Sunday.
The premier central investigating agency had earlier questioned her at her residence in Banjara Hills as a witness.
Her name figured in the case for allegedly paying kickbacks to Aam Aadmi Party (AAM) party with her representatives Arun Ramachandran Pillai and Abhishek Boinpally from Hyderabad.
Both CBI and Enforcement Directorate (ED) mentioned her name in their respective investigation, which is currently in progress.
In separate media interactions, the BJP MP Dharmapuri Arvind and BJP senior leader Vivek Venkataswamy said Kavitha might be arrested soon.
