The BJP today held its annual kite festival in Hyderabad's Necklace Road area to celebrate the harvest festival of Sankranti.
Though the turnout this year was lower than usual, owing to the restrictions on public gatherings amidst the ongoing pandemic, the area still wore a bright and festive look.
Union Minister of State for Home Affairs G Kishan Reddy inaugurated the kite festival along with the BJP OBC Morcha national president K Laxman and MLC N Ramachandra Rao.
At the celebration, Reddy and many other BJP workers present for the event flew kites with the pictures of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah on them.
Speaking on the occasion, Reddy conveyed his Sankranti greetings to the people of the state, and said that he hoped that their lives would be illuminated by the light of positivity that would be ushered in with the implementation of the new farm laws, and with the nation-wide administration of the Covid-19 vaccine.
"I believe that this year will be a good year for India and that all our economic crises will be settled, and that Covid-19 too will end. Even the employment opportunities for the people will increase," he said.
Making an oblique reference to the "misrule" of the TRS government, the minister then said that the real present for Sankranti would be the end of corruption and nepotism in the state.
After its recent successes in the state, the BJP is now preparing to win the upcoming Assembly elections. It has become the TRS' primary rival in the state. So, with the Assembly elections drawing closer everyday, the two parties are engaged in a bitter exchange of allegations and accusations. Just the other day, BJP state head Bandi Sanjay Kumar accused the TRS-led state government of misrule, and said that the people, sick of the TRS, would
help the BJP win not only the upcoming MLC elections for two graduates' constituencies seats, but also the Assembly elections.