BJP MLA M Raghunandan Rao today predicted that his party would be able to recreate its
stunning victory in the Dubbaka Assembly constituency by-election of last year at the upcoming Huzurabad by-election as well.
Speaking to the media after his appointment as the party in-charge of the Huzurabad town of the constituency, he claimed that the BJP was the proper platform for all its workers to grow their political careers.
(This was likely a veiled attack on the TRS which, according to former party member Etala Rajender, treats its workers unfairly.)
Further, Rao stated that the BJP would win in the same way that cricket teams seen as the underdogs in World Cup tournaments had emerged victorious, and added, "The people of Dubbaka had taught a befitting lesson to the ruling party, the TRS. The outcome of the by-election in the constituency had negated all the claims of the pink party's supremo, Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao, that his party would taste victory in the constituency. I won from a place which the TRS had always considered to be its stronghold even though the party's campaign for the election was led by eminent TRS leaders like KCR and Finance Minister T Harish Rao. I believe that Etala Rajender will also win the Huzurabad seat in the same way. After all, he won the seat six consecutive times earlier as well. Besides, Huzurabad is part of Karimnagar Lok Sabha constituency which is represented by our party's chief, Bandi Sanjay."
He then urged the saffron party's workers to devote themselves to the cause of winning the upcoming by-election and told them to use social media to campaign for the seat.