BRS public meeting: The ruling Bharat Rashtra Samiti's (BRS) first public meeting in Telangana was held on Wednesday in Khammam town and a host of leaders, including Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal took part in it. Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann, his Kerala counterpart Pinarayi Vijayan, CPI General Secretary D Raja and Samajwadi Party leader Akhilesh Yadav were also present at the BRS meet.
Amidst sloganeering by cadres on Bharat Rashtra Samithi regime's schemes on farmers' welfare, the first public meeting of the ruling BRS on Wednesday went lively with political songs that hailed Telangana Chief Minister and BRS president K Chandrashekar Rao's national emergence.
Political slogans like, 'Ek do theen chaar, desh ke neta KCR,' 'Jai Telangana and Jai jai KCR' in Telugu and catchphrases like 'Bhajapa ko hatayenge, Bhaarath ko Bachayenge' were also heard.
On this occasion, CM KCR hosted breakfast for the national leaders. Accompanied by all these leaders, CM KCR left Pragati Bhavan to offer special Puja in Yadagiri Lakshmi Narasimha Swamy temple. All of them flew to the temple town Yadagirigutta.
The meeting assumes political significance as it is the first public meeting after the TRS decided to go national by renaming itself as BRS and also because leaders of different opposition parties -- BRS, Aam Admi Party (AAP), Samajwadi Party and the Left -- would be seen together.
At Khammam, about 200 km from Hyderabad, they attended the launch of the second phase of 'Kanti Velugu', the Telangana government's eye screening programme.
Speaking after hoisting the pink colour flag of BRS after the Election Commission approved the name change of TRS as BRS in December, 2022, Rao, also known as KCR, exuded confidence that the "pink flag would fly high on the Red Fort one day."
Addressing his party leaders then, he gave the slogan of 'Ab ki baar kisan sarkar' (farmers' government this time) and said new economic, environment, water, electricity and women empowerment policies are needed in the country.
