Hyderabad: The time is not far off when people carrying torchlights will come in search of BRS and until such time, all party workers must have patience, focus on public problems, and fight for solutions, BRS president and former chief minister K. Chandrashekar Rao said on Wednesday.
In two-and-a-half decades, the BRS, after the launch of the final phase of statehood movement, had spectacular successes and no failures, and for a party that withstood severe turbulent times, and serious challenges, and emerged triumphant, the current setbacks are nothing to be worried about, he said. “The BRS,” Chandrashekar Rao added, “will also overcome any hurdle, receive more support from the people and will move forward.”
The expressions of hope of people turning back towards BRS after the party’s loss in the Assembly elections, and the drubbing it received in the subsequent Lok Sabha elections, came during Chandrashekar Rao’s address to party workers and leaders including some current and former legislators from Medchal-Malkajgiri, Mahbubabad, and Nalgonda districts, who gathered at his Erravalli village farmhouse.
The recent defeats are like the “evil eye cast on the party being removed. Everyone in the party must work with renewed vigour to regain public support,” he said. “Congress came to power riding on impossible-to-implement promises. People have realised they made a mistake voting for Congress. There will soon be a revolt by people against the Congress government,” he added.
Chandrashekar Rao, still recuperating from a serious hip fracture accident, urged party workers and supporters to follow a schedule if they wish to meet with him., Every day, thousands of you are coming to meet with me. It is not easy as I am still recovering to stand for hours and take pictures with you. Henceforth, each week, we will announce two constituencies from where people can come. Then we can also have much more detailed discussions,” he said.