Telangana: Tirade indicates we are main opponent now, says BJP

HYDERABAD: Not just the emphatic win in Huzurabad, the BJP believes it has got the much-needed leverage now against the TRS going by chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao’s tirade on Sunday and Monday.
While the mood in the BJP camp is upbeat after the bypoll victory, senior party leaders said the fact that they have succeeded in making the TRS openly declare the BJP as its main opponent in Telangana in itself was a victory for the party.
A wary BJP is also debating if the Hindutva card should be played now or a more balanced approach is the need of the hour. In the recent hard-fought bypoll in Huzurabad, the TRS’s style of governance was used as a stick to beat the ruling party with.
Former BJP spokesperson NV Subhash said, “In a chess game, once all ministers and pawns are vanquished, the king enters the game. Similarly, after the BJP’s rise, the CM realised that his forces could not defeat us and expressed his displeasure.”
“KTR claimed before the Huzurabad by-election that winning or losing is not of any significance to them. But, the scenario has completely changed now. They (TRS) cannot ignore us. The lotus is blooming in Telangana. We are pumped up to take on the TRS,” a party leader said.
Apart from being energised by the Huzurabad win and CM’s attack on Sanjay, the saffron party is also actively considering various options on how to take on TRS.
In Huzurabad, the BJP deliberately did not rake up Hindutva. “But, we cannot neglect our voters in other parts of the state. There will undoubtedly be a balanced play in the coming days with greater clarity during party president Sanjay’s second phase of Praja Sangrama padayatra,” the party leader said.