Deccan Chronicle

Kishan visit gives boost to TS BJP cadre

- DC CORRESPOND­ENT HYDERABAD, AUG. 21

The three days of Jan Ashirvad Yatra by Union minister G. Kishan Reddy has turned out to be a great success. It has boosted the morale of leaders and cadre, giving them confidence that BJP can come to power in the state in the Assembly elections.

This is mainly because the minister has brought clarity to the state party unit as to why and how BJP can come to power and, along with it, the required confidence to accomplish the task.

Kishan Reddy has taken up a yatra after several years for building confidence among ground-level karyakarta­s as well as local leaders. Before formation of Telangana, as a state party president and party floor leader in the AP Assembly, Kishan Reddy had undertaken a yatra across the state.

This yatra of his has come as a Union minister. This achievemen­t has led to discussion­s within the cadre as to how a common worker has gone on to become a Union minister. It passes on the message that anyone in the party who works hard can get into a good position.

Kishan Reddy’s move has also enabled him to convey how Prime Minister Narendra Modi has picked up MPs community-wise as ministers. At every public meeting during his yatra, he said Modi has chosen 52 ministers from OBC, SC, ST, Women, and minorities, sending a message to various communitie­s that BJP is the only party that will do social justice.

He has also cornered the TRS, listing out community-wise allocation­s of ministries within Chief Minister K. Chandrashe­kar Rao’s Cabinet. On one hand Kishan explained how the Modi government has taken measures to control Covid-19, while on the other he listed several decisions of the Prime Minister, like Article 370, CA and triple talaq.

He mentioned that the state government has failed in utilising the central funds for developmen­t of Telangana while also diverting central funds to other schemes.

Post the yatra, cadre and leaders of the party in districts, Parliament and Assembly constituen­cies are very much in “josh” and confident about frontally taking on the TRS.

 ?? — DEEPAK DESHPANDE ?? Union Minister G. Kishan Reddy during the Jan Ashirvad Yatra at Uppal, Ramanthapu­r, in Hyderabad on Saturday.
— DEEPAK DESHPANDE Union Minister G. Kishan Reddy during the Jan Ashirvad Yatra at Uppal, Ramanthapu­r, in Hyderabad on Saturday.

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