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Even TDP is recruiting Congress members,most of TDP are ex-Congress members so there is nothing new in BJP recruiting some known faces as they hardly have any face in Andhra.In expansionist mode, BJP gives TDP the jitters in Andhra Pradesh - The Times of India
HYDERABAD: They may be allies at this juncture, but the concerted moves being made by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to become a formidable force in Andhra Pradesh is giving sleepless nights to its partner Telugu Desam Party (TDP). Having netted three former MPs and 10 former MLAs from the Congress into its fold, the Andhra Pradesh unit of the BJP launched a membership drive on Monday and claimed that several leaders and workers from the YSR Congress are in line to join the saffron party under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
At present, the BJP is playing second-fiddle to the TDP in AP, and has been the junior partner in the recent elections which they fought as allies. But the saffron party is giving the impression that it does not want to stay in that position for long, and hence, the drive to increase the primary membership of the party as well as the efforts to bring into its fold several first and second-rung political leaders from the YSR Congress, the only other party that has a good presence in the region apart from the ruling coalition.
Through the membership drive launched on Monday, the BJP wants to establish itself as a party in its own right in AP and not be dependent on the TDP, said sources. "There is a political vacuum in Andhra Pradesh and we aim to fill it up. This does not mean we are taking on the TDP. As far as the 2019 elections are concerned, it is too early to predict anything," AP BJP president and Visakhapatnam MP Kambhampati Haribabu told TOI.
"At present, there are two lakh primary members. Within three months, we intend to increase it to 10 lakh. To achieve that, we have introduced online membership facility," AP BJP vice-president Y Raghunath Babu said.
Just before the elections, former Congress Union ministers D Purandeswari and Kavuri Sambasiva Rao joined the BJP, while industrialist Raghurama Raju ditched the YSR Congress for the saffron party. At the state level, former Congress MLAs Kola Anand from Chittoor and Katasani Rambhupal Reddy from Kurnool took saffron turn. The latest addition to the BJP is former state minister Kanna Lakshminarayana, a Congress veteran, while Konathala Ramakrishna, another former minister, is waiting in the wings to jump on the BJP bandwagon along with his followers.
BJP sources claimed that at least six YSR Congress MPs and several former Congress MPs and MLAs are in touch with them. Incidentally, the YSR Congress leaders referred to by the BJP sources included many who stayed away from the recent party conclaves held by its president Jaganmohan Reddy. "More and more leaders will join the BJP and it will become a formidable force on its own before the 2019 elections," said BJP spokesperson G Bhanu Prakash Reddy. (LOL)
Apart from individual leaders, the BJP is banking on film star Pawan Kalyan to lure members of the Kapu community to its fold. "Though most of the Kapus voted for the TDP in the recent polls, unlike the Kammas and Reddys, they do not have their own party. So we are banking on Pawan to lead the Kapus into the BJP," said party sources. The first test for the growth of the BJP will be its performance in the municipal elections in Visakhapatnam, Vijayawada and Kurnool which are expected to be held soon, they said.
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Okay so BJP is inducting all the formers leaders of YSRCP.......
Well as Ratnakar Garu has said above, the same people in the Congress(3 years ago) have gone over to BJP.
If this trend continues, I expect TDP to easily win 2019 elections, but it could face tough competition from 2024, onwards.
BJP may induct as many leaders as it wishes, but my vote in the Telugu states will be for TDP and CBN alone.
One thing i can assure you is if the Kapu community in Andhra is wooed into joining BJP then BJP will challenge TDP in next elections due to their dominant demography in East and West Godavari Districts and Vizag areas.
They earlier had expectations from Chiranjeevis PRP party but when he merged into Congress they lost hope,
Now Pawan Kalyan seems to be intent on bringing the kapu community back into his party fold.
The entry of BJP into Andhra means the entry of RSS and sangh and it will be a change in Atmosphere where Congress and TDP were rivals for many decades.
Of course Main target for BJP is Telangana much before Andhra, as People in Telangana are more pro-hindutva than Andhra people who take their own sweet time to get into such things.
In TG, there is a urgent need to revamp its membership drive to stop MIM and Mulayam Singh Yadav, of TG and our Telangana Gandhi KCR from wrecking the state.
Did you see this? @AugenBlick
Qs on KCR stumps students of Class 8
Qs on KCR stumps students of Class 8
BV Shivashankar
Hyderabad:
In a blatant bid to politicize education, students of Class 8 taking the quarterly school exams in Medak, the home district of chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao, were asked to appreciate his role in the formation of Telangana.
The students, needless to say , failed to answer the question, which read: “Explain the role of our CM K Chandrasekhar Rao in the formation of Telangana.“
This question was clubbed with a question on appreciating “the role of Gandhiji in Indian National Movement.“ which analysts said was an apparent move to equate Chandrasekhar Rao with Mahatma Gandhi.
Another bizarre question which the SSC Class 8 students failed to answer was providing a solution to the burgeoning power crisis. “What advise do you suggest to overcome the power crisis in our state? “ was the question, which left both invigilators and students pulling their hair.
The questions for 10 marks each appeared in the Social Studies paper exams held last month. There was a spattering of similar questions on Telangana which left students bewildered, for instance seeking answer to “measures on developing the new state of Telangana into a golden state of Telangana.“
As students had never read nor were taught the topic in the classroom, a teacher said only two out of 175 students in his school attempted to answer the out-of-context questions.“How can you expect the students to answer the questions given out of syllabus? More alarmingly , the move appears to be an attempt to politicize education in favour of the ruling party ,“ said the teacher from a government high school, who did not wish to be named, fearing retribution. Another objective question for one mark asked students to name the assembly constituency of KCR.
That was not all, in the 100 marks question paper, 37 marks were entirely on KCR and Telangana politics, which almost all students failed to answer, the teacher said.
While Telangana district education authorities said they were pressured to include such questions, social activists were up in arms against the government for pushing the TRS agenda in education. “The TRS is already propagating the message, saying KCR is the ‘Father of Telangana’, and even calling him Mahatma who brought freedom for Telangana. While we can term it a political ploy, how can you explain the steps taken to distort question papers in favour of a political party?” asked Balakrishna Raju, a social activist form Medak. “It is nothing but an attempt to indoctrinate students in TRS ideology,” he added. Even question papers of Classes 9 and 10 contained questions related to KCR and his party. The Class 10 paper carried 10.5 marks on him and the 9th standard paper carried 1.5 marks directly related to Chandrasekhar Rao as political leader. An objective type question in Class 10 asked wards to identify the party symbol of the TRS. It contained questions about Telangana’s Formation Day, education minister G Jagadish Reddy and on finance minister Etela Rajender’s role.
Teachers are worried over the fact that most of the Class 8 students failed in the Social Studies paper as the questions were out of context, but department officials have asked them not to be liberal while evaluating the answer scripts.
District education officer (DEO) A Rajeswar Rao, however, found nothing wrong in the questions. “The students are expected to be strong in terms of general knowledge, and it is nothing wrong in asking them to answer the questions related to the chief minister of the state,” he told TOI.
God knows what are we heading to.
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