The Union minister will be the chief guest at the Telangana Liberation Day celebrations at the Parade Grounds on Sunday.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah. (Twitter)
Union Home Minister Amit Shah will hold a crucial meeting with Telangana BJP leaders to chalk out strategies to be adopted for the forthcoming Assembly elections during his two-day visit to Hyderabad. As part of the usual exercise of meeting stars and influencers, he is likely to meet with badminton champion PV Sindhu.
The meeting is also expected to finalise the first list of BJP candidates for the Assembly polls later this year.
Shah is the chief guest at the Telangana Liberation Day celebrations to be held officially by the Union government on Sunday, 17 September, at Parade Grounds in Secunderabad.
The senior BJP leader will land at the Rajiv Gandhi Gandhi International Airport (RGIA) in Shamshabad at 7.55 pm on Saturday 16, September, and reach the CRPF sector campus for the night.
The same night, he will interact with the Union Tourism Minister and Telangana BJP president G Kishan Reddy, Karimnagar MP Bandi Sanjay Kumar, two MPs, Dharmapuri Arvind and Soyam Bapu Rao, MLAs Etala Rajender and M Raghunandhan Rao, and others.
Shah will discuss the road map for the elections with them in the presence of senior BJP leader and Telangana election-in-charge Prakash Javadekar and others. The focus would be on those who are willing to join the party and throw a stiff challenge at the BRS.
On Sunday, Shah would reach the Parade Grounds at 8.35 am and take part in Telangana Liberation Day celebrations till 11 am. He will then proceed to New Delhi from RGIA at 11.50 am. This is his second visit to Telangana within a month.
On 27 August, he addressed a public meeting in Khammam district and explained the party’s intention to help farmers on all fronts if voted to power. He criticised the BRS for failing to fulfill its promises, including the waiving of crop loans and free fertilizers to farmers.
At a press conference on Friday, 15 September, Nizamabad MP Dharmapuri Arvind slammed the BRS government for inaugurating nine medical colleges without completion of the pending works. He said the central government bore the expenditure for constructing medical colleges and the state government did not give a single rupee for these new colleges.
Arvind said Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao inaugurated the medical colleges in a hurry given the Assembly elections. He questioned the inauguration despite the BRS leaders claiming that the central government had not sanctioned the medical colleges.
Meanwhile, Kishan Reddy took part in a 200-km rally from Parade Grounds in Secunderabad to Parkal in Warangal where he addressed a public meeting in the evening. He paid floral tributes to those who sacrificed their lives while fighting against razakars during the Nizam’s rule at the Martyrs’ Memorial.
Ace badminton player PV Sindhu is among the key persons, who are likely to meet Shah during his visit.
Shah earlier met popular Telugu film actors Junior NTR and Nithin along with former Indian women cricket captain Mitali Raj and other eminent personalities when he came to the city a few months ago.
Meanwhile, Governor Dr Tamilisai Soundararajan called Union Tourism Minister and BJP State president G Kishan Reddy and enquired about his health.
Reddy observed a 24-hour deeksha in support of the unemployed youth. Though the police foiled his deeksha observed at Indira Park, he continued it at the party office.
He concluded the deeksha on Friday morning at the party office.
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