For the next few days, till the weekend at least, expect the twin cities to be awash with saffron, with top leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) starting from Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Home Minister Amit Shah, national president J.P. Nadda and others coming down to attend the national executive committee as well as the ‘Vijay Sankalpa Sabha’ public meeting at the Parade Grounds on Sunday.
National executive meetings generally do not come with this much hype and hoopla, but this time it is different as the BJP wants to make a big show of its strength and claim the space of the ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) through the meetings, pressing in topline leaders to the districts to have booth-level meetings and also hold community-level meetings within the twin cities and elsewhere to lure respective groups into its fold, said party sources on Thursday.
Union Ministers V.K. Singh, Anurag Singh Thakur, Niyanand Rai and others along with former Chief Ministers like Biplab Deb of Tripura, Babulal Marandi of Jharkhand and others are currently touring the districts.