WARANGAL: Instead of feeling important and touring the state, all party leaders must campaign and strengthen the party in their own areas, TRS working president K.T. Rama Rao said here on Thursday.
Addressing the TRS cadre as part of his preparatory meetings for the Lok Sabha elections, Mr Rama Rao said that they should conduct the campaigns also keeping in mind the upcoming elections to the mandals and zilla parishads and municipal bodies.
Mr Rama Rao told party leaders, including state committee members, state corporation chairmen, district and mandal leaders, “If you are intelligent enough, you will complete canvassing for the local body elections during the Lok Sabha campaign. If all leaders campaign with set targets within their home areas, the party will get wonderful results.”
The TRS working president asked the party leaders to campaign door to door, irrespective of the sympathies of the resident. “All people in the state are our people. Irrespective of which party they sympathise with, they benefit from the welfare schemes implemented by the TRS government,” Mr Rama Rao said. “Even the person who contested against me in the last Assembly elections received a cheque for Rs 4 lakh under the Rythu Bandhu scheme. So we have every right to ask for votes even from sympathisers of Opposition parties,” he said.
Stressing on the need to send a strong contingent of Lok Sabha members from the state, he said that the TRS was able to achieve Telangana statehood with just two members in the Lok Sabha.
“If there are 17 MPs, along with the MIM, Telangana state will be flooded with the required funds as we will be in a dictating position instead of looking for someone to show mercy on us,” he said.
He said that the TRS had won the previous byelections to the Warangal Lok Sabha seat with a majority of 4.5 lakh votes. It is the responsibility of party workers to ensure that the party emerges victorious in the two Lok Sabha seats in erstwhile Warangal district.
