BJP eyes saffron sweep in T-state

The party aims 12 LS and 75 Assembly seats to realise its dream of getting a foothold in Telangana
 Union Information and Broadcasting Minister M.Venkaiah Naidu
 Union Information and Broadcasting Minister M.Venkaiah Naidu

HYDERABAD:After setting a challenging target of winning 12 Lok Sabha and 75 Assembly seats in the 2019 polls to realise its dream of getting a firm foothold in Telangana, the BJP Central leadership has asked its state cadre to identify the vulnerable points of its rivals such as the Congress and the TRS to exploit them for their advantage.

The party leadership had asked its state cadre to adopt a step-by-step approach to strengthen party’s base in each Assembly segment, starting from the constituencies where the principal Opposition, the Congress party, is weak. As per the strategy formulated during the recent meetings of the party’s core committee held here under the guidance of Central leadership’s emissary and party national joint general secretary (organisational matters) Shiv Prakash, the party’s state leadership will first identify 75 Assembly seats where the Congress is weak. After identifying such  segments, the BJP will gradually engineer defections from the Congress to its fold to strengthen its organisational base in such segments.

After that it will nominate potential leaders as party incharges for each Assembly constituency, who will take the responsibility of building party’s base in the respective segment for 2019 polls.

“The exercise of identifying 75 potential segments where our party has prospects to grow is on,” a senior leader of the party said. “In the first stage our focus will be on urban constituencies where the BJP has traditional vote bank. Later, we will shift our focus to rural segments,” he said. In the meantime, the BJP state leadership asked its party rank and file to establish close contact with electors at booth level in each Assembly segment across the state.

The party advised its workers to be more active on social media, besides using chatting messengers like WhatsApp at their local level to publicise Prime Minister Narenda Modi’s government welfare schemes. The party activists were also directed to ensure that the benefits of the Central government sponsored schemes reach the actual beneficiaries.

At the same time, the party leadership has also decided to undertake agitational programmes against the state government in the next three months. “We have begun taking up agitations on issues such as crop loan waiver, farmers’ suicides, spurious seeds, fee reimbursement of students and non-implementation of Aarogyasri scheme,” BJP state unit president K Lakshman said.
Lakshman had participated in a dharna at Indira Park here last week. He later demanded from the state government to release the outstanding dues of fee reimbursement scheme immediately.

Mission Congress

  • To identify segments where the Congress is weak
  • To engineer defections from the Congress
  • To nominate potential leaders as party incharges for each Assembly constituency, who will take the responsibility of building party’s base in the respective segment for the 2019 polls
  • To launch campaign on Centre-sponsored schemes

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