Adilabad: BJP high command is focusing on the erstwhile Adilabad district while preparing for the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections in the country.
In this regard, the party’s in-charge for Telangana Suneel Bansal held a meeting in Nirmal on Sunday and reviewed the results of the TS assembly elections.
District presidents and elected BJP MLAs of erstwhile Adilabad district attended the meeting.
Significantly, BJP has won four of the total 10 MLA seats that it contested in the erstwhile Adilabad district, stood at second place in two assembly constituencies and finished third in another constituency. BJP candidates won the Adilabad, Sirpur (T), Mudhole and Nirmal constituencies, while standing second in Khanapur and Boath, and third in Asifabad, which fall under the Adilabad parliament constituency.
It is learnt that Suneel Bansal sought the reasons for party candidates' defeats in a few assembly constituencies of Adilabad Lok Sabha constituency. The party’s aim is to take corrective measures, so that the winning chances of the party candidate from the Adilabad seat in the next parliament elections will be high.
Incidentally, four of the total eight seats that BJP has won in Telangana assembly elections come under the erstwhile Adilabad district. It is learnt that the BJP is likely to intensify its religious programmes in the assembly constituencies ahead of the Lok Sabha elections. Top party leaders are expected to visit all the assembly constituencies and hold meetings with the party cadre and leaders. as part of the preparation for the parliament elections.
BJP MLAs Rama Rao Patel, Palvai Harish Babu, Aleti Maheshwar Reddy and Payal Shankar and Adilabad MP Soyam Bapu Rao were among those who attended the meeting with Suneel Bansal.
BJP candidates who unsuccessfully contested in the recent elections – Sridevi, Raghunath Rao, Ramesh Rathod and Athmaram Naik, assembly convenors, erstwhile Adilabad district presidents, and state general secretary Premender Reddy were also present at the meeting.
Suneel Bansal asked all those present at the meeting to increase the polling percentage of the party in the forthcoming parliament elections.
