HYDERABAD: Chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao held a meeting with finance and health minister T Harish Rao about the current political situation and finalisation of the party’s manifesto at Pragathi Bhavan on Sunday. KCR was indisposed last week.
With the schedule for elections to the Telangana assembly expected to be issued this week, all political parties have started sharpening their campaign strategies and even the BRS boss is all set to hit the hustings.
Sources in the ruling BRS said KCR has shifted his entire focus on the party’s election manifesto and has been working on it for the past three weeks. Though he has been unwell, he has been holding meetings with ministers KT Rama Rao and T Harish Rao among others.
A senior leader did not rule out the possibility of KCR having not met many leaders from the party in the last three weeks to ensure that none of the promises, sops and welfare schemes being proposed in the BRS election manifesto were leaked.
Keeping in view the six main guarantees made by Congress in addition to numerous other promises to farmers, women, youth and other sections of society, the CM is making sure that the election manifesto of BRS becomes the winning formula to score a hat-trick of victories in assembly polls.
CM KCR is expected to unveil the BRS manifesto at a massive public meeting in Warangal on October 16.
On Sunday, KCR discussed with Harish Rao about the expectations and demands of the people from BRS election manifesto, the election strategy to be adopted as the assembly poll schedule is expected soon. The CM also discussed the public meetings, road shows and other yatras to be taken up by himself (KCR), KTR, Harish Rao and other ministers.
They also discussed about Malkajgiri, Jangaon, Nampally, Goshamahal and other seats from where the contesting candidates names were in contention. He wanted every minister to cover all the constituencies in the districts and not confine to their respective seats.
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