HYDERABAD: BRS president K. Chandrashekar Rao on Monday met with MLA-elects, some MLCs, as well as other party leaders and former MLAs and ministers at his farmhouse in Erravalli village and congratulated the winners in the Telangana Assembly elections.
Chandrashekar Rao also briefly discussed the outcome of the elections and is learnt to have told the MLAs to do their jobs effectively.
Earlier in the day, BRS working president and former minister K.T. Rama Rao met with the BRS MLA-elects at Telangana Bhavan, the party headquarters, and discussed the results.
“When we were in power, we worked from the Secretariat and the Pragathi Bhavan. Now that we are in the opposition, all our work henceforth will be from Telangana Bhavan,” Rama Rao told the meeting.
Rama Rao, congratulating the winners, told them that though people did not vote for the BRS to continue in government, they had given the party a respectable number of seats in the Assembly in view of the last 10 years of the government’s hard work. “We should effectively discharge our duty as the opposition party and as days go by, people will once again develop a favourable opinion about us and our party. We are already receiving a flood of messages on how people did not expect us to lose the elections,” Rama Rao said.
There was some confusion over the absence of former minister Ch Malla Reddy, Marri Rajasekhar Reddy and D. Sudheer Reddy at the meeting in Telangana Bhavan with rumours suggesting they deliberately skipped the event. However, Malla Reddy later clarified that they did not have the information about the meeting and had proceeded directly to Erravelli to meet Chandrashekar Rao.
At the meeting, Rama Rao said that a meeting with all BRS leaders will be held soon to review and take stock on how the elections went, and the way forward.
In his comments, Chandrashekar Rao said, “We should respect the verdict of the people, and though as per Constitution we had time till January 16 to continue in government, we moved aside as per the wishes of the people. Let us wait and see what happens, and after a meeting at Telagnana Bhavan, we will elect the BRS Legislature Party leader.”
