BJP National president Amit Shah has reportedly told the State party leadership that it has failed to cash in on the ‘anti-incumbency’ mood prevailing against the Telangana Rashtra Samiti in the run up to the Assembly elections in December.
Mr. Shah who had returned to the City on Wednesday night after addressing an election rally in Karimnagar held a meeting with the senior leaders in the party office. Coordinators of 63 Assembly constituencies also attended the meeting.
“We have inputs that the anti-incumbency against the TRS is rising and we have been unable to take advantage of the situation. If we do not galvanise ourselves to face the elections, Congress is sure to benefit,” he is understood to have remarked.
Lost time
Not stopping at that the BJP chief went to the extent of noting that if the Congress returned to power, the BJP would not have space for the next two decades. “We are already two months behind our campaign. Unless we step up our activity and go to the people, the party will not benefit,” Mr. Shah was quoted as saying.
Mr. Shah said the party was waging an ideological war with the TRS and wanted the party leaders to expose latter’s nexus with the MIM.
“The MIM leadership is steering the TRS party in the State and this has to be exposed during the campaign,” Mr. Shah made it clear to the leaders.
He allayed the fears of the party leaders that the party would have a truck with the TRS. “Time and again the State leadership is asking me about the possible tie-up. I want to make it very clear to you that there should be no confusion. We are going alone in the Assembly elections,” he remarked.