Hyderabad: BRS president and Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao on Friday promised to implement the ‘Telangana model’ of welfare schemes and development programmes in Maharashtra if elected to power in that state in the elections scheduled for October 2024.
Rao announced a one-month action plan to expand the BRS and spread its ideology in Maharashtra from the village level upwards by forming nine committees in every village for the farmers, SCs, STs, OBCs, women, youth and students.
He was speaking at a two-day workshop of the BRS Maharashtra unit in Nanded that is intended to train the party functionaries drawn from all 288 Assembly constituencies in Maharashtra. He distributed tablet computer for party functionaries for undertaking online membership drives in Maharashtra and distributed the party's publicity material.
"The BRS is expanding its activities in Maharashtra. We have held three public meetings, which received overwhelming response. We are soon going to start BRS permanent offices in Nanded, Aurangabad, Pune and Mumbai,” Rao said.
“The BRS was formed to bring about a qualitative change. The people of Maharashtra have an opportunity to bring about this change by taking the lead," Rao said.
He asked party functionaries to cover five villages every day for the next 30 days, meet people, explain the Telangana model, seek their support for BRS and undertake a membership drive.
He instructed them to form village committees apart from ward and division committees in towns and cities. Based on population, these members can be increased to 11, 15 and a maximum of 24. Each village, ward and division should have nine committees each for women, farmers, youth, OBCS, SCs, STs, youth and students, he stated.
Rao said that Telangana was the only state to extend Rs. 10,000 per acre per year to every farmer, irrespective of the extent of land reach owns under Rythu Bandhu scheme, providing Rs. 5 lakh free insurance coverage to every farmer, purchasing food grains for MSP in both kharif and rabi seasons and the amount credited in bank accounts of farmers directly within five days.
"When all these are possible in Telangana, why not in Maharashtra? If BRS comes to power here, all these schemes will become a reality," Rao said.
