The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has set itself a tough target of winning the Mayor post by bagging majority seats in the elections to GHMC, likely to be held before the year-end as per the High Court directions.
A day-long meeting of the party’s election management committee held here on Thursday decided to be in the field from August first week with an action plan to strengthen the party from the polling station level. “Our main rival will be Majlis (MIM) and not either Congress or TRS and the results of the last general elections provide it,” BJP Legislature Party leader K. Laxman said at the meeting.
The party was understood to be planning to put senior leaders in charge of Assembly constituencies falling in the GHMC limits.
The election management committee has been set up with 30 members including party five MLAs and one MLC in Telangana Legislature, Union Minister Bandaru Dattatreya and State unit president G. Kishan Reddy.
Besides, it comprises P. Muralidhar Rao, V. Rama Rao, Baddam Bal Reddy, Nagam Janardhan Reddy, party’s Hyderabad unit president B. Venkat Reddy, Ranga Reddy urban president M. Chandraiah, former DGP V. Dinesh Reddy and others.
The meeting was stated have discussed the political strategy for winning majority corporator seats with the help of an action plan that includes door-to-door campaign explaining the people how the party had transformed the cities such as Nagpur, Surat and Delhi into the best places for living. The party would also tell people how it was the able alternative to Congress in the country and Majlis in the city.
Party sources stated that the action plan would include explaining people the major problems being faced by them and the failure of the TRS Government in addressing them.
Taking BJP closer to people would also be another important task of the strategy in which plans would be made keeping in mind the strengths of TDP and ruling TRS.
On the Aadhaar card-voter card link being pursued by the State Government, Mr. Laxman said they would oppose deletion of votes simply for not having Aadhaar card.
