After Bengal Win, BJP Launches Mission Telangana

HYDERABAD: Defence minister Rajnath Singh, during his visit to the city, is scheduled to address a meeting of intellectuals in Secunderabad, as the national high command moves to replicate its West Bengal momentum in Telangana. The session framed as ‘12 Years of Sushasan, Vikas & Jan-Kalyan’ is being held to marshal opinion-makers and energise the cadre ahead of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation polls later this year and the Assembly elections in 2028.

Party sources said the gains in West Bengal had prompted the BJP central leadership to take full command of Telangana unit affairs, dispatching a stream of senior leaders and organisers for strategy meetings, public programmes and district-level outreach.

BJP president Nitin Nabin is expected to undertake a three-day tour of Telangana, though his schedule remains under wraps. Party insiders say Nabin will spearhead a “Bengal-style” playbook combining intense grass-roots agitation, targeted public outreach and focused issue-based campaigns as part of a broader “Mission Telangana” to reclaim political ground.

BJP state in-charge Abhay Kumar Patil, a four-time MLA from Karnataka, who scripted the recent Rythu Gosa BJP Bharosa bus yatra, will oversee implementation of the party programmes. The farmers’ outreach that Patil coordinated with senior MPs and legislators, is being discussed internally as a model for wide participation, mobile campaigning and clear, pressure-driven demands that produced visible administrative responses on procurement.

Next on the agenda, the party plans a statewide student mobilisation targeting fee reimbursement delays in higher education. BJP legislators will lead campus visits and demonstrations highlighting what the party calls an accumulated arrears figure of around ₹14,000 crore. MLA Katipally Venkata Ramana Reddy alleged that dues from the 2020–21 academic year remained unpaid, two and a half years into the Congress government’s tenure.

Sources said the high command had instructed the Telangana unit to act firmly against senior leaders whose public remarks could confusing workers or dilute the party line. The move signalled an intent to streamline messaging while intensifying street-level activity.