The Bharatiya Janata Party’s Telangana unit will contest the elections alone in 2019 polls and will fight against the “autocratic and dictatorial rule” of the TRS Government which was akin to the “Nizam’s rule”, said party general secretary Ram Madhav here on Monday.
“I am confident that we will win most number of Assembly and Lok Sabha seats in TS. Only the BJP stands as a strong alternative to TRS and we are closely monitoring the political situation and chalking out strategies in that direction,” he said at a press conference.
Dismissing any possible tie-up with TRS or the party joining the Union Cabinet, he said: “Our party president Amit Shah has categorically asserted that we are going all out against the TRS. This government is arrogant, using brute majority to deny political space to opposition and has failed to fulfil assurances made during the agitation,” he said.
That the Union Ministers had hailed some “good works” being done here was no political endorsement of the State Government. “We want the Government to do good work because the Centre gives funds to most programmes but politically our fight is against the TRS,” he said.
Mr. Madhav, in charge of five Lok Sabha constituencies in North Telangana — Karimnagar, Zaheerabad, Medak, Nizamabad and Adilabad —, said he had held discussions with leaders of the first three constituencies to assess the ground situation and the plans ahead.
“KCR has made many big promises and talked big during the agitation like celebrating the TS Liberation Day in a grand fashion but now he is doing it in a secretive manner as a token gesture on an issue which is a matter of self-respect to Telangana people,” he said, and accused the Government of trying every trick to foil TS president K. Laxman’s recent ‘ýatra’. About the national scenario, the BJP leader remarked: “We are not contesting for winning elections in 2019 as it is a foregone conclusion. Our advance exercise is to get two-thirds majority. So, an effort to win 120-130 more LS seats where we are strong but lost for various reasons. The Congress was a headless and leaderless party and “we have stopped taking them seriously”, he said.