Hyderabad: The success of the BRS meeting in Kandhar Loha, Maharashtra, on Sunday has encouraged the party leadership to plan a few more in that state, as well as a few other states, in the run-up to the Lok Sabha elections in 2024.
With BRS president and Chief Minsiter K. Chandrashekar Rao announcing that the party will contest in the Maharashtra elections for panchayat samithis and zilla parishads, the party is planning to focus more on that state, according to party sources.
The CM's half-hour speech in Hindi highlighting the ‘Telangana model’ of welfare initiatives and development programmes, while criticising the failures of the previous Congress and BJP governments at the Centre, drew a massive response from the people.
The CM's address felt more like an interactive session with the gathering, as he asked the people whether they needed Telangana's welfare schemes or not, and whether they received Rs 6,000 per acre following his February visit to Nanded. People cheered every time he mentioned the Telangana government's schemes.
Although it was Rao’s second visit to Maharashtra on Sunday, the party regards it as his first because his previous visit to Nanded on February 6 was more of a 'party programme' with a focus on joinings of local leaders from other parties, and the public was not mobilised.
For the gathering on Sunday, the public was mobilised from mandals and villages throughout Nanded district. A large gathering was seen in the 18-acre venue. The CM also hinted at visiting Sholapur saying that he was under pressure from leaders of that region to address a public meeting.
The CM tried to strike an emotional chord with the people in Maharashtra by garlanding the statues of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, Jyotirao Phule and Dr B.R. Ambedkar before addressing the public meeting. The CM began his speech by paying tributes to them and recollecting their services to the nation.
