The differences among the State leaders of the BJP are gradually coming out in the open.
In a fresh development, BJP MLA M Raghunandan Rao today demanded that the party high command give him due recognition in the party.
He made it clear to the party high command that one of three key posts - State party president, BJLP floor leader and national spokesperson of the party - should be given to him.
Speaking to the media in Delhi, Rao said that he had been working for the party for the last ten years, and asked if he was not eligible for the State party president's post yet.
He said that the people of Dubbaka had voted for him and not the party, and that they felt that he alone could take on CM K Chandrashekar Rao and so ensured his victory. He pointed out that the BJP had got only 3,500 votes in the same Dubbaka constituency Assembly election before his victory.
He also claimed that another party MLA Etala Rajender had joined the BJP only after seeing his victory from Dubbaka assembly seat.
Referring to his caste, he said that his caste had now become a curse for him in some issues of the party.
He however asserted that he would continue in the party, and exuded confidence that he would retain his Dubbaka Assembly seat for the second consecutive term.
Rao also claimed that the party had spent Rs 100 crore to win the Munugodu Assembly seat, and that he would have strengthened the party if the same Rs 100 crore was given to him. He asked how Bandi Sanjay, who had contested in the last MP elections by selling the jewellery of his wife, had got the power to spend Rs 100 crore. He also said that the fall of Sanjay in the party was the result of his own mistakes.