The Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh election results and the coming elections in Karnataka, “where the Bharatiya Janata Party would emerge victorious, will bring about a sea change” in the political landscape of Telangana, said its party State president K. Laxman.
Mr Laxman told pressmen at the party district office on Saturday that the BJP would be the strongest alternative to the Telangana Rashtra Samithi government in 2019. And, with the party’s top brass, icluding its president Amit Shah, scheduled to visit the State next month, followed by the Prime Minister’s tour in 2018, the BJP wave would be apparent, Mr. Laxman said.
‘Looking for governance’
He said the people of Telangana were looking for a change in governance, after witnessing the pro-poor and corruption-free governance led by the Prime Minister at the Centre. Mr Laxman said he would justify his observations with the following: the State government had misled the people, and did not address important issues like unemployment, farmers’ suicides, pending irrigation projects, poor performance in the welfare of SCs/STs and BCs, he said.
Accusing the government of not chalking out a clear strategy for farmers’ welfare, he said farmers had suffered losses because of fake seeds and untimely rains, and later burning paddy in fields was because of lack of a strategy. “Waiver of ₹4,000 is just an election gimmick, and the Chief Minister himself said the farmers’ committees are for TRS members,” he said.
