After creating a flutter in neighbouring Andhra Pradesh with his stinging comments on the Jagan Mohan Reddy-led YSRCP government, Union Home Minister Amit Shah was all set to arrive in Telangana to address a public meeting in Khammam on Thursday, 15 June.He was supposed to meet ace filmmaker S S Rajamouli, the director of blockbuster movies ‘RRR’ and ‘Baahubali’, according to Telangana BJP sources.
The meeting has, however, now been postponed, with Shah, along with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, focussing all his attention on the Cyclone Biparjoy that is bearing down on the Gujarat coast.
Biparjoy, which has intensified into a “very severe cyclonic storm”, is expected to make landfall in the Saurashtra and Kutch regions of the state anytime between 4 pm and 8 pm on 15 June.
The postponement of the Union home minister’s visit was announced by Telangana state BJP chief Bandi Sanjay Kumar — whose fate Shah was expected to dwell on during his visit — on Twitter on Thursday afternoon.
Shah’s Telangana agenda
Amit Shah’s meeting had been organised as part of Maha Jana Samapark Abhiyan of the saffron party ahead of the year-end Assembly elections in the state — and had been scheduled at a time the state unit of the party is witnessing a leadership tussle.
In fact, Amit Shah — who has been crisscrossing the country, addressing public meetings and extolling the virtues of Prime Minister Modi — was expected to deal with the leadership issue during his visit.
