BJP’s Arvind Dharmapuri pads up for Nizamabad’s Lok Sabha polls

Ch Sushil Rao / TNN / Feb 25, 2018, 10:12 IST

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Arvind Dharmapuri

HYDERABAD: The poll bugle has been sounded by Arvind Dharmapuri of the Bhartiya Janta Party(BJP).
In an obvious bid to wrest the Nizamabad Lok Sabha seat in the 2019 election, he will embark on a 135 km padayatra in Nizamabad parliamentary constituency from March 2. The seat is currently held by Kalvakuntla Kavitha, daughter of chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao.
Arvind’s 10 day padayatra will culminate in a huge public meeting at Bodhan on March 11.

“The time has come to keep my word and demand the state government to reopen the Nizam sugar factory. I will stand by sugarcane farmers," Arvind said in an announcement on Saturday.

With its strategy worked out to win the Nizamabad parliament seat, BJP has shown interest to field Arvind Dharmapuri from the constituency.
Arvind's father D Srinivas is a TRS Rajya Sabha member. Prior to joining the TRS, he was with the Congress. Arvind, however, chose to join the BJP to chalk out his own political course. In the last few months, through his Arvind Foundation he provided funds to save lives of 70 children by taking care of the cost of surgeries needed for their ailments.

Arvind has also taken up the issue of Minimum Support Price (MSP) for red jowar farmers, for which they were agitating. He made a representation to Union minister of state for home Hans Raj Gangaram to take up the issue for not only red jowar but turmeric too with the Centre.
He is also attacking the TRS government on its 'failures.' "What kind of progressive government chucks its people into abyss roads?? Please don't try to masquerade such acts of negligence as development, which claims the lives of citizens!" Arvind said on Facebook on the condition of roads in Nizamabad.

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Ch Sushil Rao

Sushil Rao is Editor-Special Reports, at The Times of India, Hyderabad. He began his journalism career at the age of 20 in 1988. He is a gold medalist in journalism from the Department of Communication and Journalism, Arts College, Osmania University, Hyderabad from where he did his post-graduation from. He has been with The Times of India’s Hyderabad edition since its launch in 2000. He has also done an introductory course in film studies from the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune, and also from the Central University of Kerala equipping himself with the knowledge of filmmaking for film criticism. He has authored four books. In his career spanning 34 years, he has worked for five newspapers and has also done television reporting. He was also a web journalist during internet’s infancy in the mid 1990s in India. He covers defence, politics, diaspora, innovation, administration, the film industry, Hyderabad city and Telangana state, and human interest stories. He is also a podcaster, blogger, does video reporting and makes documentaries.

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