Honest and able leadership and decentralised development model is all what the Bharatiya Janata Party promises now to the people of Telangana and manifesto issues would be made public only in 2018, a year before general elections, said party national executive member Perala Chandrasekhar Rao.
In an interview with The Hindu on the party strategy for the next elections, Mr. Rao said that the party was focusing more on strengthening the organisation until 2018. In Telangana polling booth, village and mandal-level committees have been constituted. As part of its strategy, it was decided to reach out to every voter and identified active cadre who volunteered to work full time until next elections.
The party chose to conduct its ongoing State level executive meeting in Warangal, the centre of all movements. “This is the place where we are strong since Jan Sangh days. At a time when the BJP won only two MP seats in the country, one was from Hanamkonda. We have MLAs, MPs and Mayor from this place,” Mr. Sekhar Rao said.
It was the ABVP and BJP which fought strongly against the naxal groups in Telangana and more particularly in Warangal, Karimnagar and Nalgonda districts. The party has strong roots here and now the effort was only to revive it. The party won MLA seats in Parkal, Wardhannapet and Hanamkonda in the past and Mayor of Warangal city as well. Mr. Sekhar Rao said that people of Telangana know that role the BJP played in the passage of separate Telangana in Parliament. The party would focus on Prime Minister Modi’s able leadership, welfare schemes besides exposing the failures of the ruling TRS party in the State.
“Be it corruption, family rule, adamant behaviour of leaders and inefficient administration – the TRS is no different from the Congress. We will highlight this more in the days to come,” he said.The BJP ruled 20 states and it has able leadership and good administrative skills. The smaller states witnessed rapid development but Telangana failed to do so under the TRS rule. “KCR promises remain on paper. More focus is on projects and schemes where the TRS leaders get huge commissions,” Mr. Sekhar Rao alleged.