BRS shifts focus on inducting youth from opposition parties

Adilabad: The ruling BRS has turned its focus to inducting youth from opposition parties and various caste and people’s associations in constituencies across the state.

On the other hand, the party is trying to assuage the hurt feelings of the Mudhiraj community, which is complaining about the BRS top leadership for not allotting even a single party ticket to the leaders belonging to the community to contest in the Assembly elections.

As part of this, Adilabad MLA Jogu Ramanna on Thursday attended as the guest for the oath-taking ceremony of the newly constituted committee of the Adilabad district Mudhiraj community.

Meanwhile, the BRS nominees have stopped their campaign in rural areas following the instructions from the party leadership in the wake of the Central government planning to conduct simultaneous elections for Assembly and Parliament.

A few days ago, Congress leaders including Adilabad Market Committee chairman and senior Congress leader Yasam Narsinga Rao and senior Congress leader Kalchap Reddy of Jainad joined the BRS in the presence of MLA Jogu Ramanna.

Congress and BJP activists of Khanapur, Jaijawan Nagar, Durganagar, Abdullah Chowk, Sanjaynagar, KRK colony of Adilabad town, and Mavala, Neerala, and Chanda (T) villages have recently joined the ruling party. Among those activists, the majority were Muslim youths.  
    
Speaking to Deccan Chronicle, MLA Jogu Ramanna said that attracted to the party’s policies and welfare schemes by the BRS government, the activists, especially youth from the Congress and BJP were showing interest in joining the ruling party. He said that more activists and leaders from opposition parties would join the BRS in the near future.

Some Congress leaders and youth joined the BRS in the presence of BRS candidate Anil Jadhav in the Boath Assembly constituency on Thursday.