HYDERABAD: Ahead of the upcoming graduate MLC elections, BJP Telangana in-charge Tarun Chugh on Thursday held poll preparatory meetings with the party’s top leaders in the State, wherein he stressed the need for making the saffron fold stronger by landing big fish from other parties.
Chugh, who is on a three-day tour in the districts, where MLC and municipal corporation elections are due, told party leaders how to approach the elections, and wanted them to reach out to each and every graduate voter and win them over to the BJP’s side.
The BJP leaders also wanted party functionaries to keep on eye on leaders from other parties, who are showing renewed interest in the saffron fold on account of several factors, including the suffocating habitat in which they have been forced live. The leaders were told to look out for disgruntled leaders in the Congress and the TRS, and sink the hook.
According to BJP leaders, their target is not just to retain the Mahbubnagar-Hyderabad-Rangareddy graduates’ constituency, but to emerge victorious with a wide margin. The saffron party has already roped in its pariwar outfits, including ABVP, teachers’ unions, community wings and so on, to reach out to the graduate voters. The party laders said they were confident of support of at least three lakh voters of the total 5.8 lakh voters in the constituency.
The party has appointed in-charges for all the 600 booths in the segment, in addition to the existing booth-, mandal-, and district-level committees of Assembly election teams. Each of these committees has nearly 20 active members. The party has instructed the in-charges to meet the graduate voters on a day-to-day basis.
Chugh has also asked the party State unit to appoint in-charges for every 10 to 50 graduate voters. The party is gearing up to deploy its national leaders including Amit Shah, Nirmala Sitaraman, and Nitin Gadkari, among others, to brighten the prospects of its candidates.Meanwhile, speaking to Express, MLC N Ramachander Rao, who is the sitting MLC of the Hyderabad graduates constituency, said that the party has endorsed his candidature.
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