Tirupati: The AP unit of the BJP would host two public meetings at which top party leaders would be present -- one at Srikalahasti on June 10 and the other in Visakhapatnam on June 11.
BJP national president J.P. Nadda would address a public meeting at Srikalahasti and Union home minister Amit Shah a public meeting in Visakhapatnam.
The BJP national leadership is currently running an intense campaign on the successful completion of nine years of the Narendra Modi-led government. As part of this, top party leaders would explain to the people about the series of welfare schemes and developmental works that the central government has implemented across the country in the last nine years.
AP is going for Assembly polls along with the Lok Sabha elections in 2024. The BJP’s alliance with Pawan Kalyan’s Jana Sena is hoped to be of special help to the party in garnering votes in these polls. Alongside, the BJP is taking up a series of programmes including filing of charge-sheets against the ruling YSRC government in the state dispensation.
Several senior leaders like Union minister of state for health and family welfare Bharati Pawar are touring the state to review the implementation of several central schemes and are pulling up the state government for its alleged failure to implement these properly.
AP BJP chief Somu Veerraju has been supervising the arrangements for the public meetings and holding a series of meetings with party leaders.
Meanwhile, in order to stake its claim on the Tirupati Lok Sabha seat, the BJP's central leadership is emphasising the party's track record in implementing central schemes and advancing its development agenda over the past nine years. The public meeting in Srikalahasti that falls within the Tirupati LA constituency will be addressed by Nadda.
The BJP had secured the second position in the 2021 by-election in Tirupati constituency with the support of the JS against the YSR Congress and TD candidates. The last time the BJP emerged victorious in Tirupati was in the 1999 elections when its candidate, Venkata Swamy won the seat in alliance with TD. He defeated the Congress candidate by a margin of 12,497 votes.
