Hyderabad: The BJP is all set to notch up its political offensive in Telangana, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi scheduled to launch the party campaign on October 1 at a public meeting in Mahbubnagar for the Assembly elections.
The party on Saturday announced that he would address a public meeting at 12.30 pm at Bhoothpur on the outskirts of Mahbubnagar town.
The event will mark the start of a series of public meetings the party is planning in all 17 Parliamentary constituencies, covering the 119 Assembly segments. Among the top BJP leaders to address these meetings in addition to Modi will be the home minister Amit Shah and BJP president J.P. Nadda.
For the October 1 meeting, the party considered Nalgonda, Nizamabad and Mahbubabad as possible venues, but decided on Mahbubnagar. Sources said that Modi would not spare the BRS government in his address on various fronts, especially concerning the Palamuru-Rangareddy Lift Irrigation Scheme (PRLIS).
Modi’s meeting will come just 14 days after the Congress’ Vijayabheri meeting in Tukkuguda near Hyderabad, with its top echelon of leaders, including Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and Mallikarjun Kharge addressing it. The party also announced six guarantees to the people.
As recently as September 16, Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao addressed a public meeting in the Mahbubnagar district after he switched on a pump at the PRLIS Narlapur pump house marking the inauguration of the project.
The BJP maintained that it was nothing more than a symbolic act. It said that with 30 more pumps of the project still being installed and even tenders not called for canal works for the project, the inauguration by the Chief Minister was nothing more than an eyewash to garner votes.
Former MP from Mahbubnagar A.P. Jithender Reddy, along with party state general secretary G. Premender Reddy said preparations will begin in full swing for a massive public meeting and called on people from the former unified Mahbubnagar districts to attend the meeting in large numbers.
