For the last two weeks, a discontent of sorts has been brewing in the Telangana unit of Bharatiya Janata Party with several senior leaders grouping against the party leadership for lack of any proper direction in fighting the upcoming elections.
Leaders like G Vivek Venkat Swamy, Komatireddy Rajagopal Reddy, Konda Vishweshwar Reddy, Enugu Ravinder Reddy and Vijayashanti had met three or four times and expressed their unhappiness.
Some of them went on record saying that the BJP cannot put up a tough fight against the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Congress in the coming elections. They even said the people were suspicious about some kind of understanding between the BRS and the BJP.
Yet, the BJP national leadership chose to appease them and appointed them as heads of various committees constituted for fighting the assembly elections. After a meeting of the state BJP leaders under the leadership of BJP organising secretary B L Santosh, state president G Kishan Reddy constituted 14 committees.
While Vivek was made the chairman of manifesto and publicity committee chairman and Konda Vishweshwar Reddy as its convenor, Rajagopal Reddy was made the head of the party screening committee, Vijayashanti as the chairperson of agitation committee and G Vijayarama Rao as the convenor of SC constituencies’ coordination committee.
Here are the other committees:
1. Social Outreach: Chairman Dr. Kova Laxman, M.P. Convenor Dr. Boora Narsaiah Goud, Ex.MP
2. Public Meetings: Chairman Sri Bandi Sanjay Kumar, M.P. Convenor Sri G. Premender Reddy, BJP-GS Jt. Convenor Dr. Kasam Venkateshwarlu, BJP-GS
3. Influencer Outreach: Chairman Smt. D.K. Aruna, Former Minister Convenor Sri Ponguleti Sudhakar Reddy, Ex-MLC
4. Manifesto & Publicity Chairman: Dr. G. Vivek Venkata Swamy, Ex.MP Convenor Sri A. Maheshwar Reddy, Ex-MLA Jt. Convenor Sri Konda Vishweshwar Reddy, Ex-MP
5. Charge-sheet: Chairman Sri P. Muralidhar Rao Convenor Sri Endala Lakshminarayana, Ex-MLA Jt. Convenor Sri Chintala Ramchandra Reddy, Ex-MLA Jt. Convenor Sri Ramachandrudu, IAS (Retd)
6. Screening: Chairman Sri Komatireddy Rajagopal Reddy, Ex-MP Convenor Sri Dugyala Pradeep Kumar, BJP-GS
7. Agitation: Chairman Smt. Vijaya Shanthi, Ex-MP Convenor Dr. Gangidi Manohar Reddy, BJP-VP
8. Social Media: Chairman Sri Arvind Dharmapuri, M.P. Convenor Sri Poreddy Kishore Reddy
9. Election Commission Issues: Chairman Sri Marri Shashidhar Reddy, Ex-MLA Convenor Sri Kapilavai Dilip Kumar, Ex-MLC
10. Headquarters Coordination: Chairman Sri Nallu Indrasena Reddy, Ex-MLA Convenor Kum. Shruthi Bangaru, BJP-GS
11. Media Chairman: Sri M. Raghunandan Rao, MLA Convenor Sri N. Ramachandra Rao, Ex-MLC Jt. Convenor Dr. S. Prakash Reddy, BJP Secretary
12. Campaign Issues/ Talking Points: Chairman Sri Vedire Shriram Convenor Sri N.V.S.S. Prabhakar, Ex.MLA
13. SC Constituencies Coordination: Chairman Sri A.P. Jithendra Reddy, Ex-MP Convenor Dr.G Vijaya Rama Rao, Former Minister
14. ST Constituencies Coordination: Chairman Sri Garikapati Mohan Rao, Ex-MP Convenor Sri Soyam Bapu Rao, M.P. Jt. Convenor Sri D. Ravindra Naik.