Win 90% seats in local body polls: CM to cadre
Hyderabad: Chief minister A Revanth Reddy and TPCC president B Mahesh Kumar Goud on Sunday set the target for ministers, party leaders, and cadre to win at least 90% seats in the ensuing rural and urban local body elections. Their aim is to bring the party to power for a second term in the state, with the ultimate objective of defeating the BJP govt at the Centre and making Rahul Gandhi the prime minister.
Revanth and Goud addressed the Congress Legislature Party (CLP) meeting at a star hotel at Madhapur. They provided a roadmap for effectively taking the govt welfare programmes to the doorsteps of the voters.
Sources said Revanth told the leaders that elections to local bodies would be held after a caste survey (census) in the state as promised by Rahul Gandhi.
“That is why a new team of the BC commission has also been appointed. We have constituted a sub-committee led by N Uttam Kumar Reddy, which will soon give a report to the govt on the sub-classification of SCs in tune with the Supreme Court orders,” he said.
“The BJP govt wants to come back for a fourth term at the Centre and take control of the country through its ‘one nation, one election’ (ONOE) agenda. Congress workers should inform the people about the dangers of ONOE, the CM said.
The meeting also discussed at length complaints from Congress leaders and workers about differences between partymen and camps of 10 BRS turncoat MLAs. There was a need for bridging the gap between the party and the govt.
Mahesh Goud reportedly said the party was not able to effectively take Congress govt welfare schemes like the 2 lakh crop loan waiver to the people. “I will act as a bridge between the party and govt and ensure that the coordination improves. Take the local body elections as a challenge,” he said.
Meanwhile, turncoat MLA Arekapudi Gandhi, whose appointment as PAC chairman was opposed by BRS, came to the CLP meeting. BRS MLA T Harish Rao was quick to post a message on ‘X’ asking the Congress to stop fooling the people and the opposition that Gandhi was still a legislator of BRS.
Courtesy : TOI
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