BJP changes strategy woos BCs with promise of CM post

Adilabad: Candidates of major political parties in Telangana have intensified their campaigns for the upcoming assembly polls and drum beats reverberate in the villages across the erstwhile Adilabad district. The polls will be held in phases from Nov 30.

In a sudden change of its strategy, the BJP is promising the CM post for a BC. The campaign teams of the Congress and the BRS are wooing the voters with their ‘six guarantee’ schemes and BRS manifesto that offers goodies to the people, respectively. 

Candidates are visiting villages and campaigning on the basis of their party manifestos. Congress leaders pin their hopes on the party’s offer of six special schemes for the people, while the BRS candidates highlight the promises in the party manifesto.

BJP candidate Payal Shankar of Adilabad appealed to the BC communities to extend their support to the BJP to make one of the BC leaders the next CM of Telangana.

BRS candidate Jogu Ramanna tried to show off his strength at the first election meeting in Adilabad, in which Minister T Harish Rao was present. Ramanna started the election campaign much before the BJP and the Congress arrived on the scene.

The BJP, which recently seemed losing its fragile grip in Telangana, is using the “BC CM” offer as its trump card to win the polls. The BCs, together, form more than half of the state’s population but they are not united at the political level.

To push its campaign, the BJP is involving the leaders of BC associations in their election campaign to woo these communities.

Vedma Bojju of the Congress, who got the ticket in the party’s second list, has intensified his election campaign, visited villages, and interacted with various community elders.

Former MLC Premsagar Rao also intensified his election campaign in Mancherial while his wife Surekha, the DCC president, covered households. She is interacting with women and distributing the six guarantee cards.

Notably, some BRS and Congress candidates are facing considerable resistance within the party from other ticket aspirants who were ignored by the leadership.

Attention is focused on the Chennur constituency, for which the BJP and the Congress have not yet announced their candidates so far.