HYDERABAD: After its maiden public meeting in Khammam a couple of weeks ago, all eyes are on Bharat Rashtra Samithi's (BRS) first public meeting outside Telangana at Nanded in Maharashtra on Sunday. Scores of leaders are likely to join the fledgling party.
Ahead of the public meeting, several leaders from Maharashtra and Chhattisgarh, including former MPs, district chairpersons and other senior leaders met BRS chief and chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao at Pragati Bhavan on Saturday. They felt his leadership was required for the country now and Telangana schemes need to be replicated in all the states while expressing their desire to join BRS.
National United Front of India president Gopal Rishikar Bharti, Balaghat ex-MP Bodh Singh Bhagat, Bhandara ex-MP Kushal Bhopche, ex ministers from Chhattisgarh Chabbilal Ratre, Gadchiroli former ZP chairman Pasula Sammayya, Republican Party president Srinivas Shankar and others have experessed their desire to join the party.
The BRS president would address the public meeting in the afternoon. He would leave for Nanded after attending cabinet meeting on Sunday morning, which will approve the state budget for 2023-2024. The state government would present the budget on February 6.
The party is mobilising people from Nanded South, Nanded North, Bhokar, Naigaon, Mukhed, Deglur and Loh constituencies, Dharmabad and Kinwat towns, and other villages, which border assembly constituencies of Telangana. Sources in the party said BRS workers and leaders from Adilabad, Boath, Mudhole, Jukkal and Bodhan would also attend the meeting.
Telangana minister and Nirmal MLA A Indrakaran Reddy, Telangana State Civil Supplies Corporation chairman Sardar Ravinder Singh, MLAs Balka Suman and Shakeel Ahmed, TSIIC chairman Gyadari Rajamallu and other leaders were camping in Nanded for the past one week to make the meeting a success.
Nanded town has turned pink with banners, flexies and hoardings for the meet.
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