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  • Not unhappy, will take charge after PM’s visit: G Kishan Reddy

    Not unhappy, will take charge after PM’s visit: G Kishan Reddy

    Hyderabad: A day after his appointment as Telangana state BJP president, Union Tourism Minister G Kishan Reddy announced that he will take charge of his new post on July 8 after Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s scheduled visit to the state.

    Refuting reports that he was not happy with the new role, he said he would continue to work as per the instructions of the high command and follow the party’s ‘one man one post’ policy.

    Addressing the media in New Delhi on Wednesday, Kishan Reddy said that the BJP aims to come to power in the state in the upcoming assembly elections and is ready to work with all to achieve it. Claiming that he gave his cent per cent in whatever responsibility was assigned to him, he said that he never sought any post from the party.

  • Karnataka results, internal strife not easy for Telangana BJP

    Karnataka results, internal strife not easy for Telangana BJP

    Hyderabad (IANS) | The BJP, which till a few weeks ago was the main challenger to the ruling Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) in Telangana, seems to have slipped to the third position in the election year here following infighting and its defeat in the Karnataka assembly elections.

    Not long ago the saffron party was projecting itself as the only viable alternative to the BRS in the state and its leaders were hoping that Telangana would become their second gateway into the south after Karnataka.

    However, today she finds herself batting on difficult wickets.

    Political analysts say a shift towards the Congress after the party’s landslide victory in Karnataka, BRS rebels preferring the grand old party over the BJP and growing voices of discontent against the state leadership have landed the saffron party in trouble. .

    With reports of some leaders joining the BJP and now planning to join the Congress, the morale of the party seems to be falling further.

    With only four-five months left for the elections, the BJP faces a tough challenge in going into the fray as a united unit.

    BJP MLA Eatala Rajender and former MLA Komatireddy Raj Gopal Reddy are reportedly planning to quit the party and join the Congress.

    It will be a big embarrassment for the BJP as Rajendra is heading the committee or panel that has been tasked with wooing leaders of other parties to join the saffron camp.

    Chief Minister K. Rajendra quit the BRS in 2021 after he was dropped from the state cabinet by Chandrasekhar Rao. He had also given up his assembly seat, Huzurabad, and joined the BJP. In the by-election held the same year, Rajendra was re-elected with a large margin.

    Raj Gopal Reddy, who was the Congress MLA from Munugode, followed in the footsteps of Rajendra. Union Home Minister Amit Shah himself came to Munugode to welcome the businessman-politician into the party. However, Raj Gopal Reddy failed to repeat Huzurabad in Munugode last year and the BRS wrested the seat.

    Political analyst Palavai Raghavendra Reddy said, the BJP’s downfall had started after the defeat in Munugode. The party which was in aggressive mode started looking weak.

    Now that the Congress has regained its lost ground, Raj Gopal Reddy seems keen to return to the party fold. His brother and Bhongir MP Komatireddy Venkata Reddy is also making efforts to ensure his return.

    Both the leaders stayed away from the mass contact program organized by the BJP across the state on June 22 to reach out to 35 lakh households in a single day to highlight the achievements of the Modi government during the last nine years.

    Both Rajender and Raj Gopal Reddy as well as some other leaders like former MP Konda Vishweshwar Reddy, who had quit the Congress to join the BJP, are unhappy with the working style of state unit president Bandi Sanjay Kumar.

    The BJP’s central leadership is worried about developments in Telangana, evident from the fact that both Rajendra and Raj Gopal Reddy have been called to Delhi, in what is seen as a last-ditch effort to persuade them to stay with the BJP .

    However, Sanjay is trying to put up a strong face. When asked about the plans of some BJP leaders to join the Congress, he said, “If someone wants to board a sinking ship, we cannot stop him.”

    In the BJP camp, infighting between different factions has been visible for several months.

    The differences surfaced again last month when Rajendra and other leaders went to Khammam to meet former MP Ponguleti Srinivasa Reddy and former minister Jupalli Krishna Rao without informing Bandi Sanjay and other senior leaders to invite them to join the BJP. Can go

    Since Srinivasa Reddy and Krishna Rao were recently suspended by the BRS for anti-party activities, Eatala and others held talks with them to persuade them to join the saffron party.

    Rajendra later reveals that both the leaders tried to persuade him to join hands with them to oust the BRS from power.

    Buoyed by its victory in the Karnataka elections, the Congress party seems to be overtaking the BJP in attracting rebels from other parties.

    Political observers say that with the recent induction of leaders from BRS and other parties, the Congress party has started emerging as the main challenger to the BRS.

    In the last few days, the Congress party has also been successful in wooing the rebel BRS leaders who earlier seemed to favor the BJP.

    With Srinivasa Reddy and Krishna Rao almost making up their mind to join Congress, the Congress party seems to be getting great success.

    This is not the first time that bitterness is being seen in the BJP camp. Recently, BJP MP Arvind Dharampuri, daughter of Chief Minister and BRS leader K. Bandi on Kavita came out in open against Sanjay’s alleged derogatory remarks. The Nizamabad MP had said that he did not agree with Bandi’s remarks.

    It was a blow to the party as Arvind is a bitter critic of CM KCR and his family. he 201

  • Telangana BJP challenges KCR to a debate on Telangana’s development

    Telangana BJP challenges KCR to a debate on Telangana’s development

    Hyderabad (IANS) | BJP’s Telangana unit President Bandi Sanjay Kumar on Sunday Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao to a debate on the development of Telangana during the last nine years. He said that Union Minister G. Kishan Reddy will participate in the discussion on behalf of the BJP. “Let the chief minister come for a debate,” he told reporters in Karimnagar. He demanded that KCR also explain why he failed to fulfill the promises made during the last elections and how he would repay the Rs 5 lakh crore loan.

    Sanjay reiterated that the BJP would come to power in Telangana on its own. He also made it clear that the BJP will continue with the good schemes. He said that BJP will also continue the Dharani portal with some changes. He remarked that it is a good move, but it is being used to serve the interests of the KCR family. We will do justice to those who have suffered losses due to the Dharani portal, he said.

    The BJP leader dismissed allegations by Congress party leaders that the BJP is in collusion with the BRS and claimed that there is a secret pact between the Congress and the BRS. He said it was the BJP, which defeated the BRS in the assembly bypolls in Dubbaka and Huzurabad, and also gave a tough fight to the party in the Munugode and Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) elections. He wants to know why the Congress did poorly in these elections.

    Sanjay also alleged that the BRS provided funds to the Congress party for the Karnataka elections. He claimed that Congress MP Komatireddy Venkata Reddy and senior leader Jana Reddy have already said that the BRS and the Congress will join hands.

    The BJP leader said that the nexus between the BRS and the Congress is evident from the fact that people elected on Congress tickets are joining the BRS. He said, KCR decides the candidates of both Congress and BRS. He has already decided candidates for 30 assembly seats.

    Sanjay also recalled that when the NDA fielded Draupadi Murmu, a tribal woman, as its candidate for the presidential election, the Congress and the BRS together tried to defeat her.

    –IANS

  • Telangana BJP chief Bandi Sanjay taken into police custody

    Telangana BJP chief Bandi Sanjay taken into police custody

    HYDERABAD: Telangana BJP president Bandi Sanjay Kumar was forcefully arrested by police from his residence in Karimnagar town on Tuesday midnight, and has been lodged in Bommalaramaram police station in Yadadri-Bhuvanagiri district.

    Sanjay was supposed to hold a press meet at 9 30 am on Wednesday to speak about the question paper leaks which have rocked not only the Telangana State Public Service Commission (TSPSC) but also the board of secondary education.

    BJP has called for state-wide protests against what the party leaders are calling an ‘illegal arrest.’

    Even as Sanjay asked the police why they were arresting him, they informed him that it was only a preventive arrest.

    Sanjay tweeted shortly after his arrest writing his “only mistake” was questioning the BRS government on its “wrongdoings.”

    BJP national organising secretary BL Santhosh tweeted saying, “Rattled, riddled with corruption charges, facing electoral reverses @BRSparty & its leadership is a sinking boat. They have touched a raw nerve by arresting @BJP4Telangana State President & MP @bandisanjay_bjp. This will be the last nail on their political existence.”

    Sanjay’s wife Aparna said that he had come to hold the 10th-day ceremony of her mother’s demise, and that police told her that there were orders from the commissioner to arrest him.

    She said that the police personnel dragged those who tried to prevent the arrest and took him away.

    When BJP MLA M Raghunandan Rao went to Bommalaramaram police station to meet Sanjay on Wednesday morning, he was stopped a couple of kilometres away from the police station and was manhandled by the police and taken into custody.

    Speaking with the media before his arrest, Raghunandan said that there was a procedure to be followed while arresting a sitting parliament MP and that it was an illegal arrest.

    BJP MLA T Raja Singh, in a video message, said that the State government was tense after Sanjay started exposing it with regard to the question papers’ leaks.