BJP in jitters as leaders quit
Leaders say party unwilling to use their services
With several disgruntled leaders switching loyalties to other parties, the BJP state leadership is said to be in a tight spot and is trying hard to keep the flock together in the wake of emerging new political equations.
Party state unit president Bandi Sanjay Kumar is understandably putting all efforts to stop the sullen leaders from migrating to other parties and is meeting them personally to dissuade them from doing so.
According to sources, Sanjay Kumar invited the son of former home minister Devender Goud, T
Virender Goud to Delhi to thrash out the issues. Virender Goud, along with his close associates, visited Delhi and met Sanjay and discussed the recent developments, it is learnt.
A week ago, Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) president A Revanth Reddy visited Devender Goud’s residence and interacted with them and invited them to join the Congress for a better future, sources said. With this, a worried BJP wanted to stop further defection from the party, they added.
Earlier, BJP Mahbubnagar district president Erra Shekar met Revanth Reddy and resigned from
BJP to join the Congress. Two days ago, former minister and senior leader Motkupalli Narasimhulu resigned from the party and made several allegations against the BJP and its leadership.
Amid the issues, Sanjay Kumar is learnt to have called disappointed leaders and pacified them to continue in the party to fight against the TRS and Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao.
Speculation is doing rounds that former ministers Enugala Peddi Reddy and Boda Janardhan, former MP Chada Suresh Reddy and several former MLAs who are unhappy with the BJP are also ready to desert the party for their own future.
Senior leaders and former MLAs shared their version about being unhappy with the party, saying that the party was not willing to use their services and failed to utilise them in the fight against government failures. They said Motkupalli’s statements were 100 percent right that other party leaders who had worked in the Congress and the TDP earlier could not survive in the BJP.
Sources said that young leaders who joined the BJP from the Congress are pinning all the hopes on BJP national vice president D.K. Aruna who assured them a bright future in the party.