BJP's TS Strategy: Highlight Modi's Schemes, Point Out Flaws in KCR Plans
HYDERABAD: The BJP has adopted a two-pronged strategy for the Assembly elections in the state by showcasing central schemes and questioning the BRS on its failures.
Speaking with Deccan Chronicle, Huzurabad MLA Etala Rajendar, BJP campaign committee chairman, who is taking on Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao at Gajwel, said, “We are highlighting central schemes like cement roads being laid as part of PM Grameen Sadak Yojana. Benefits accruing to people like free rice, laying of national highways, fertiliser subsidies, Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana and PM Kisan Samman Nidhi. We are telling people that the Centre will also implement the Fasal Bima Yojana.”
The party, he said, is also targeting the BRS over its failure to deliver double-bed rooms, pension for all deserving candidates, leakage of TSPSC question papers, Dalit Bandhu, allotment of three acre land and BC Bandhu.
Rajendar, who is also contesting from his Huzurabad constituency, said the BJP has promised timely conduct of exams by TSPSC for jobs, and frame a policy for those going to the Gulf among others.
Soyam Bapu Rao, Adilabad MP who is contesting from Boath, said, “We are highlighting the state government’s failure to give new ration cards, construction of Ram Mandir along with extension of schemes like free rice for the next five years. The party is also focusing on the Podu land issue. The state government gave rights over one acre of land under the Forest Rights Act while there is a provision to give documents for up to 10 acres of land.”
He said the BJP has promised roads, community halls for various sections of people SC, ST, BCs and others. “The demand for a division in Boath is also being highlighted and we will deliver it. The Kupty irrigation project is another demand which we are taking up,” he said.
TS BJP spokesperson Rani Rudrama Reddy, who is taking on BRS working president and minister K.T. Rama Rao from Sircilla, says her rival hardly toured the constituency 14 times in the last 14 years. “The people are waiting here for pensions, ration cards and are demanding buses to their places. Of the 48 check dams that were constructed, 24 were swept away in rains,” she said.
She said roads, LED street lights, Haritha Haram, Ujwala gas connections, NREGS work are being funded by the Centre which the state government is claiming as its own. “KTR should concentrate on highlighting his work rather than trying to woo our leaders if he is confident.”
Errabelli Pradeep Rao, BJP candidate from Warangal East, said Chandrashekar Rao had failed to deliver promises that he made to the people of Warangal when he visited the city after it was hit by floods. When the floods recurred, minister Rama Rao visited the city and promised double bed room houses but nothing was done yet, he said.
Pradeep Rao said he would revive the lakes, which were dug by the Kakatiya rulers.
