Working president of the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) K. T. Rama Rao has asked the party ranks and leaders to stop blaming people for defeat of the party in the recent Assembly elections with the suggestion that it was they (people) who have been supportive all through, including the successive victories in the 2014 and 2018 polls.
Speaking at the party’s preparatory meeting for the Bhongir Parliamentary Constituency held here on Friday, he said it was time not to sulk over on the defeat but focus on the coming election with a renewed vigour to win majority Lok Sabha seats to prove that the BRS was a force to reckon with and only alternative to the Congress in the State.
He told the meeting that the people had not rejected the BRS outrightly but had given 39 seats and the party had lost another 14 seats with small margins that were manageable with little more efforts. He explained that the reasons identified for the party’s defeat in the preparatory meetings of 10 LS seats held before the one for Bhongir include neglect on the party organisation with total focus on governance and that he would take the blame for it.
