BRS seeks to beat anti-incumbency through micro-level outreach programmes
Hyderabad: The BRS, in an attempt to counter anti-incumbency, launched on Sunday a micro-level booth management drive to reach out to 3.1 crore voters in the next 40 days, marking its biggest outreach programme in the ongoing election campaign.
On the day, ministers K.T. Rama Rao and T. Harish Rao launched training programmes in the city for 350 party in charges from all 119 Assembly constituencies.
Sources said in charges are being trained on reaching out to each voter, with the help of 100 party workers in every polling booth, with a special focus on sections who are presumed to be discontent with the BRS government. They were asked to explain reasons for the delay in resolutions and assure them of quicker redressals if it is voted into power for a third term.
The training session was held at a hotel in Jalavihar.
The BRS has divided the 3.1 crore voters into A, B, C and D categories. Category-A voters are those who are pro-BRS, category-B are those who are not sure of who to vote for, category-C are those who are angry with BRS and category-D are those who don't vote for BRS.
Sources said that the 100 party workers in each booth would meet every voter, interact with them, explain to them why they should vote for the BRS and depending on their response, re-categorise them. The reports would be submitted to the 350 incharges, who will be deputed to ‘BRS war rooms’ that are being set up in all constituencies.
The move comes against the backdrop of BRS surveys indicating anti-incumbency against it, especially among the 18-35 age group.
In the meeting, Rama Rao told the party in charge that the youths were developing an anti-BRS mindset due to false propaganda undertaken by Congress and the BJP on government recruitment exams.
He said that BRS workers should reach out to them on how the government filled 1.3 lakh government jobs in Telangana in the past nine years, which was higher than APPSC recruitment exams conducted for the entire Andhra Pradesh during the Congress regime from 2004 to 2014. He further asked party workers to tell youths that recruitment exams to fill another 90,000 posts are under various stages of recruitment and these got delayed due to Opposition parties blocking them by approaching courts.
Harish Rao asked party workers to counter Congress’ six guarantees by pushing the BRS manifesto aggressively to the people in the next 40 days. He asked them to explain to voters that the BRS government was already delivering most of the promises made by Congress and that Congress just enhanced the financial assistance.
Harish Rao said that the BRS manifesto was better than the Congress’ guarantees and party workers should make people aware of this, especially the Rs 5 lakh free insurance to all BPL families through LIC, super quality fine rice to all ration card holders at Rs 1 per kg, enhanced Aasara pensions and Rythu Bandhu, among others.
