HYDERABAD: After putting the Telangana State on its ambitious agenda for making the party expand its wings to Southern States by 2019 polls, BJP leadership has decided to send five Union ministers along with party national president Amit Shah to the state one after another, from April 7 to April 14, as part of its efforts to strengthen the party ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha and Assembly elections.
At first, Amit Shah will visit the state on April 7 to give a direction to his party rank and file in Telangana. Shah will address a meeting of BJP leaders belonging to Hyderabad Parliamentary segment at LB Stadium here on that day, besides kickstarting party’s Parliamentary constituency-wise meetings across the state, to be held from April 7 to April 14.
According to a party sources, during his visit, Shah will take part in a programme to be organised at a Dalit wada in Hyderabad in order to win over the community.
“We have begun taking steps to strengthen our party at booth level in every Assembly segment in order to gain power in the state by 2019 polls. So far, we have appointed 13,000 committees at polling booth level across the state,” BJP state unit chief K Laxman said here on Monday.
According to him, the BJP will celebrate the party foundation day on April 6 in a big way across the state. The party will hold parliamentary constituency-wise meetings from April 7 to April 14, the birth anniversary of BR Ambedkar, in every Lok Sabha segment in the state.
Besides five Union ministers, party representatives from Delhi will tour each constituency during the week-long programme to strengthen the party from booth level.