BJP leader and former MP Vijayashanti will reportedly campaign for former minister Etala Rajender in the Huzurabad constituency ahead of the upcoming by-election in the region.
Speaking to the media after releasing a CD of the song of state BJP chief Bandi Sanjay Kumar's upcoming Praja Sangrama padayatra, she said that she would be going to Huzurabad to campaign for her "younger brother", Rajender.
Claiming that the BJP was the one party in Telangana that would protect the people of the state, the former MP added that the state would see all-round development only under the rule of her party. She then urged the people to extend their support to Rajender to defeat "a corrupt Chief Minister like K Chandrashekar Rao".
"The CM now regrets his decision of ousting Etala Rajender from the TRS as he has realised that the former minister will surely win the by-election," Vijayashanti stated.
Talking about the future of the BJP in Telangana, she asserted that the party would definitely come to power in the 2023 Assembly elections.
Meanwhile politician Indira Shoban who recently
quit Y S Sharmila's YSR Telangana Party, is also headed towards Huzurabad. Today she announced that she would launch an employment assurance (Upadhi Bharosa) yatra in the constituency on August 27.
"Though I am not yet joining any political party, my objective is to raise the problems faced by field assistants, staff nurses, Vidya volunteers and junior lecturers of the state during my padayatra which is to begin on August 27 from Illanthakunta mandal. The CM had no right to lay off the contract and outsourcing employees of the state. He has taken away the jobs of 54,000 people so far and has also failed to implement the orders of the Supreme Court of providing equal salaries for equal work to all contract and outsourced employees," the leader thundered.
Shoban also flayed the KCR regime for "not providing livelihood support" to the farmers and field assistants of the state, and claimed that scores of them had committed suicide due this "failure" of the Telangana government.