Ahead of the BJP’s two-day national executive, Telangana was at the center of the party’s next political push, as the party mounted an explosive attack against the state government led by Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao and asserted that the countdown to the state’s resignation had begun.
Tarun Chugh, BJP’s general secretary, briefed reporters on how KCR, as he is called, did not visit his office for even 30 hours during a 3000-day tenure, spent “colorful evenings”, and promoted family rule, and ignored those who sacrificed for the creation of the state.
On July 3, soon after the executive meeting ends, the BJP is planning to hold what the party believes will be a huge public meeting at which Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address the people. The BJP has used the meeting as a springboard to capture power in the state. It sent leaders across its 119 assemblies to solicit feedback and held a large public meeting to be addressed by the Prime Minister on July 3.
The BJP has already secured Maharashtra and is now focusing on other states in the south, including Telangana.
Chugh cites the executive meeting as the reason for the press conference regarding the Supreme Court’s criticism of suspended BJP leader Nupur Sharma’s comments about Prophet Mohammad.
PM Modi’s public meeting will be attended by over 35,000 BJP members across the state, as well as lakhs of other people.
After the meeting with Modi, Chugh asserted that Rao would have only 520 days remaining in office. He was alluding to the probable time frame until the 2023 assembly elections. Following his arrival in the city, which is hosting the party’s national executive for the first time in 18 years, BJP president J P Nadda also staged a road show.
The agenda for the national executive meeting was discussed during a meeting of the party general secretaries that Nadda presided over in the evening. Two resolutions will probably be adopted by the party during the meeting.
According to Chugh, the BJP’s state director, Modi would also be present at every meeting of the national executive, a significant BJP group with close to 350 members from throughout the nation.
In response to questions on Rao’s assertion that the state is an example of development and his dismissing of the BJP meeting as a circus, the BJP leader claimed that data will demonstrate his failure to keep his commitments to all segments of society.
The BJP is also hosting an exhibition, highlighting the “atrocities” of the Razakars (Nizam’s militia before the then-Hyderabad state was liberated in 1948), the Telangana liberation movement, the state’s heritage and culture, the party’s evolution in this region, and the governance agenda of Modi, to make its agenda more emotionally compelling for the public.
Chugh claimed that KCR has avoided many of the founding members of the campaign which resulted in the establishment of Telangana as a separate state in 2014 while his daughter, son, and son-in-law are in charge of it.
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This will be the third physical gathering of the BJP’s top decision-making body since it took office in a southern state in 2014 and it’s first outside of the national capital in five years.
In a few recent elections in the state, the BJP performed strongly, winning the byelections for the Huzurabad and Dubbaka constituencies and putting on a strong performance in the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation in 2020, where it gained 48 seats.
The BJP won four Lok Sabha seats in Telangana in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.
It was during the last Hyderabad national executive in 2004 that the BJP, which was in power at the time, was thought to have decided to push the Lok Sabha elections forward, a decision that proved disastrous as the party lost power to the Congress.
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The national executive meeting will begin at noon on Saturday with Nadda’s inaugural speech and conclude on Sunday with Modi’s address.
During the meeting, poll-bound states will provide an update on their organization’s activities.
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