Sort it out: BJP top brass cracks the whip, tells Telangana leaders to fall in line

HYDERABAD: “Sort it out.”

That was the simple but stern message that the BJP high command has delivered to state party leaders who have been indulging in games of one-upmanship and posturing over the past few weeks.

Party sources said the national leadership has made it clear that enough is
enough and it is time for the party leaders in the state to fall in line, stay united, and that any shenanigans from this point of time will not be tolerated.

They said several leaders received calls from senior party leaders in Delhi, including an influential general secretary, making it clear that it was childish behaviour by some BJP state leaders and that this must end immediately.

The meeting of some senior party leaders, including former MPs A.P. Jithender Reddy, Konda Vishweshwar Reddy, G. Vivek Venkatswamy and Vijayashanti, among others, was the final counter by the state leadership to end the bickering, a senior party leader said.

It may be recalled that the past few weeks witnessed unseemly developmentsin the Telangana state BJP with many senior leaders looking askance at the goings on and pointing fingers at a small group of leaders as causing the trouble by seeking changes in the state leadership and making pitches that under state president Sanjay Kumar, the party has reached a peak and it cannot go any further up. However, this talk has now been put firmly down by the central leadership, sources said, which reiterated that there will not be any change in the leadership.

Asked about the conversations about Huzurabad MLA Etala Rajendar getting the
post of campaign committee chairman, and some other leaders who have been
unhappy also receiving some posts soon, the state party secretary Dr. S.
Prakash Reddy told some media persons on Monday that there was no need to
attach any extra importance to such appointments.

“Once the ongoing Maha Jan Sampark Abhiyan ends on June 30, the party will move into election mode and with it, there will be formalization of some committees, be it for overseeing the campaign or preparing the party manifesto and so on. It is natural that there will be a campaign committee chairman, as will be a manifesto committee head,” he said.