It has been just around three months since Bharat Rashtra Samithi led by Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao lost power to the Congress.
The party is in virtual shambles as some of its MLAs started looking up to the Congress and in several districts, the BRS leaders of local bodies are defecting to the Congress lock, stock and barrel.
As the party is facing a crisis, KCR stopped bothering about his party units in other states, where he was planning spread in a big way till last year.
In Andhra Pradesh, the BRS has virtually wound up its shop and party leaders like Thota Chandrasekhar, Ravela Kishore Babu and others have already been jumping into other parties.
Now, the BRS leaders in Maharashtra are in a state of confusion as to what to do. With the elections to the Lok Sabha fast approaching, the BRS leaders in Maharashtra have not got any direction from the party president till date.
On Thursday, the BRS leaders of Maharashtra, including former MLAs, former MPs and six coordinators appointed by the party met and discussed their future course of action.
They wrote a strongly worded letter to KCR asking him what he wanted them to do in the coming Lok Sabha elections. They asked him whether the BRS would contest the Lok Sabha polls or not.
“We are expecting a concrete decision in the next one week. If there is no response, we shall take our own course of action,” they said, threatening to wind up the party in Maharashtra.
The BRS leaders also pointed out that the party has not been paying rent to the party offices set up in Maharashtra. There is virtually no activity after September last year.
“After joining the BRS, we ended up betrayers of Maharashtra,” they said, asking KCR to take an early decision.
Last year, the BRS established its network at the grassroots level in 15 districts, covering 27 of the total 48 Lok Sabha constituencies in Maharashtra, with an enrolment of nearly 1.5 million members.
Several senior leaders, including some former lawmakers and legislators, besides hundreds of sarpanches and zilla parishad members have already joined the BRS in Maharashtra.
Before September, KCR announced that he would hold a series of 30 public meetings in Maharashtra, covering majority of the districts.
He said the BRS would intensify the membership drive, appoint party committees in every district and expand the organisational network across the state to face the Lok Sabha elections.
He addressed as many as seven public meetings in Maharashtra. But after losing power in Telangana, KCR has completely forgotten the other states.