Mission Saffron: Hunt down TRS
HYDERABAD: Following BJP president Amit Shah's target set for the party's Telangana unit to gain power in the new State by 2019, TS leaders of the saffron party have begun training their guns on TRS.
Indicating that their party has set the tone for a virulent attack on the ruling party in the coming days, several of the BJP leaders from the State, including party TS unit boss G Kishan Reddy, fired the choicest salvos at the pink party leadership, disapproving of its 'friendly approach' towards MIM, during the meeting of party's Telangana village presidents' convention held here on Friday.
As though his party is making an attempt to consolidate the anti-Muslim and pro-Hindu vote-bank in the new State so as to improve its electoral prospects, Kishan Reddy wondered why the TRS is trying to join hands with the MIM, 'which had vehemently opposed bifurcation of AP', and at the same time, keeping the BJP at the bay which had played a key role in forming the new State.
In a bid to woo students, Kishan Reddy fully backed the agitation of OU students opposing the government's decision to regularise the services of contract employees.
As if he is endorsing the offensive approach adopted by his colleagues against the TRS government, BJP boss Amit Shah, who was on the dais, too called upon his party cadres in the State to undertake agitations against the 'anti-people policies' of the State government.
Even party senior Nagam Janardhan Reddy did not spare his former friend KCR and alleged that the Chief Minister had used Telangana agitation to come to power and was not serious about developing the State. The former minister also expressed doubts about TRS fulfilling all its poll promises.
'Let us wait for the budget. People would know what they are going to get,' he remarked. Indicating that his party would not spare TRS inside and outside the Assembly, BJP floor leader K Lakshman said his party would take on the pink party in the budget session beginning Sept 10.
BJP general secretary P Muralidhar Rao expressed his unhappiness over TRS not recognising BJP's role in the creation of Telangana state and called on party cadres to expose the misdeeds of the ruling party.
Senior leader N Indrasena Reddy said, 'KCR took the support of students, employees, farmers, and poets to come to power but now he is ignoring them.'
TIME TO GET OUT OF TDP'S SHADOWS
BJP might be a friend of the TDP for now, but it does not want to remain as a wallflower in Telangana forever. 'Our party should take the lead in the new State and emerge as a formidable Opposition,' this is the clear message reportedly given by BJP chief Amit Shah to party leaders from Telangana during his two-day visit to Hyderabad. According to sources, Amit Shah categorically told them they should take the lead in Telangana.
News Posted: 23 August, 2014
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