Senior leaders of the Telangana Congress, who met at Bhongir MP Komatireddy Venkat Reddy’s residence in Hyderabad on Wednesday, 19 July, decided to set aside differences between them and work together to bring the Congress back to power in the state.
The meeting, which lasted for over four hours, saw discussions about strategies that are required for the party to stage a comeback in the state.
They are also understood to have decided to implement the party’s Karnataka model to win the election — making specific promises that would be implemented as soon as the party comes to power.
The senior leaders who attended the meeting included Telangana in-charge Manikrao Thakre, TPCC president A Revanth Reddy, Congress Legislature Party leader Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka, Nalgonda MP N Uttam Kumar Reddy, leaders Mahesh Kumar Goud, Ponnala Lakshmaiah, and SA Sampath Kumar.
Issues that were discussed
The leaders also decided to take out a bus yatra soon.“Only 100 days are left for the final showdown.
We will take out a bus yatra to reach the people,” Venkat Reddy said, while interacting with the media after the meeting.
Venkat Reddy said the issues that came up for discussion included the identification of problems the people were facing, the visit of the top party leaders to the state, and the promises to be made to the public on the eve of the elections.
He also announced that party General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi will address a huge public meeting on 30 July at Kollapur in the erstwhile Mahabubnagar district, where she would release the Women’s Declaration.The meeting will mark the admission of former minister Jupally Krishna Rao into the Congress fold.
“The idea is that in this electoral battle, people should win,” Venkat Reddy said.
The leaders decided to call the meeting of the Political Affairs Committee to chalk out finer details of the programmes that the party intends to take up to rouse the people’s opinion in favour of the Congress.
According to sources, the senior leaders felt that if they continue to differ on even trivial issues, it may do a lot of harm to the party’s image.They felt that it was necessary that they should let bygones be bygones and strengthen the effort to make the party emerge victorious in the Assembly elections.
They felt that the situation was very conducive for the Congress to emerge as a powerful contender for power, unlike in the last elections.
