Telangana: Amit Shah targets 2023 assembly elections

HYDERABAD: BJP national president Amit Shah will launch a party membership drive in the city on July 6. The BJP chief held a core committee meeting with Telangana leaders including BJP state president K Laxman, leader G Kishan Reddy and other leaders in Delhi at BJP headquarters on Sunday.
Amit Shah told the state leaders to strengthen the party in Telangana and target the 2023 assembly elections. He said two central ministers will tour the rural and urban areas in the state and participate in various programmes.
Shah said “The people of Telangana are angry with the TRS government. They are especially unhappy with the family rule of chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao. This is high time to emerge as an alternative in the state to the ruling party.”
Shah added that the leaders should inform people that various Central scheme results were not being implemented in the state by the state government.
The BJP is targeting 36 lakh members in the state from the existing 18 lakh members in the state.
The party is roping in as many as 8,000 leaders of various cadres right from the state level to mandal level.
They have instructed each leader to get 50 new members by dedicating atleast one week for membership drive.
While there are 32,000 electoral booths in the state, about 2,000 polling booths do not have any members. It has been decided by the party that no booth should be left without a BJP member.
BJP leader Shivraj Singh Chouhan visited the city recently to give instructions for implementing the membership drive.