After losing some leaders to the Congress party in the last few weeks, the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) is hitting back by luring disgruntled leaders from the opposition to its camp.
With the distribution of tickets by the Congress to turncoats angering senior and loyal leaders, the ruling party is taking advantage of the situation.
Whenever any key leader resigns from Congress, the BRS leadership loses no time in reaching out to them and inviting them to join the ruling party. This strategy is paying the BR’s dividends with the followers of these leaders also switching loyalties in their respective constituencies. This is expected to bolster the BRS position ahead of the November 30 election.
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BRS working president K.T. Rama Rao and senior leader T. Harish Rao are personally leading this effort to lure disgruntled Congress leaders to their camps. They are then inviting the leaders to meet the BRS president and Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao.
After succeeding in winning back the support of those who had left TRS (now BRS) during the Telangana movement, both the top leaders personally visited the houses of the Congress leaders soon after they resigned from the party.
As BRS has already announced candidates for almost all 119 constituencies, the party is assuring these leaders that they will be accommodated in suitable positions in the future.
When senior leader and former Minister Ponnala Lakshmaiah resigned from the Congress over the alleged humiliation of Backward Class leaders within the party, KTR rushed to his house in no time to invite him to join the party.
Ponnala, former president of Telangana Congress, ended his 40-year-long association with the Congress after it became clear that the party would not field him from the Jangaon constituency. In his resignation letter, he alleged that the Backward Caste leaders within the party were insulted when they went to Delhi to meet the central leaders to demand a fair share of tickets to BCs.
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