Eye on 2023 polls, Amit Shah visit to give leg up to Telangana BJP

HYDERABAD: A public meeting will be organised by the Bharatiya Janata Party when Union home minister Amit Shah visits the city on March 15 in the run up to the GHMC polls.
In tune with its aim of coming to power in Telangana in 2023, the saffron party has laid out its plan to generate political mileage through the GHMC elections.
The party is upbeat about its position in the state after the recent urban local body elections, that it fought alone.
Shah’s rally is expected to focus on the construction of a grand Ram temple in Ayodhya, the Citizenship (Amendment) Act and National Register of Citizens, devolution of Central funds for urban development in the state and corruption in projects executed by the TRS government.
The Union home minister may also try to convince the electorate that Asaduddin Owaisi’s All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen is steering chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao-led TRS government.
“KCR announced that he would organise a meeting of chief ministers and also pass a resolution in the state Assembly against CAA under the pressure of MIM. The TRS-MIM is an unholy nexus which needs to be exposed in front of the people of Telangana,” said a BJP leader.
“The Congress is on the verge of sinking in the state. Though the BJP had won only 4 of the total 150 seats in 2016 GHMC pols, it has improved its performance and voting share since then. If there is any state in south India, after Karnataka, where BJP can come to power, it is definitely Telangana,” the leader said.
“Amit Shah has given a clear message to the party to focus on Telangana with the mission 2023—i.e. coming to power in the state,” another senior BJP leader said.