We Will Be Back in Power, KCR Tells Party Leaders
KCR was addressing a much-anticipated meeting of senior leaders and present and former elected representatives at Telangana Bhavan. There will be a meeting of party leaders on April 10, followed by a public meeting on April 27.
Hyderabad: BRS president and former chief minister K. Chandrashekar Rao on Wednesday declared that it was 100 per cent certain that the party would return to power, and called on party leaders and workers to fight on behalf of the people.
Rao said it was time to turn up the heat on the Congress government, declaring that he had not seen “so much revulsion” for a chief minister in such a short period of time.
“As the main opposition party, it is for us to hold the government accountable. In just 14 months, the state has been pushed into a crisis. It is only the BRS which can fight for the people as we know their problems. One hundred per cent we will return to power and it is for us to fight for the people inspired by our 25-year history.”
Rao was addressing a much-anticipated meeting of senior leaders and present and former elected representatives at Telangana Bhavan. There will be a meeting of party leaders on April 10, followed by a public meeting on April 27.
The party will also begin a membership drive from April 10, followed by setting up of party committees and the election of party president will be held in October or November, he said.
Chandrashekar Rao said the BRS must prove itself in the coming local body elections. “We are not a party that will lose heart with one defeat. There will also be byelections in 10 seats where our MLAs went and joined Congress. It is time for us to rebuild the party from the ground up,” he said.
Party sources said Chandrashekar Rao upbraided party workers and leaders for talking out of turn and speaking about the BRS in a dismissive manner after it lost from all the seats in the Lok Sabha elections. He is learnt to have said that it was the talk that the ‘BRS is finished’ that came from within the ranks that prompted 10 MLAs to join the Congress.
Briefing the media, party working president K.T. Rama Rao said “KCR said that the BRS is a child born out of history for the liberation of Telangana.” He said, “KCR directed us to focus on Congress’ failures. This is going to be a very busy year for us.”
For the year-long celebrations, various committees will be set up and senior leader T. Harish Rao has been asked to coordinate the activities of the committees.
