Newly elected BJP Rajya Sabha member from Uttar Pradesh and national OBC president K. Laxman has been in the hot seat in the past few days ever since he was made chairman of the organising committees to oversee the national office bearers, national executive and the public meeting of Prime Minister Narendra Modi at Parade Grounds, Secunderabad, this weekend. In this exclusive interview, he explains the significance of these programmes.
Question: The BJP’s top leadership will be here for the meetings for two days, why Telangana?
Answer: Our party is focusing on Telangana as we see a political vacuum with the ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) led by Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao losing credibility and faith among people as they are vexed with his autocratic, corrupt and dynastic rule. The Congress is anyway in cahoots with TRS as has become evident once again in the latter’s support to Yashwant Sinha in the presidential elections. In fact, every party is against us now. We want to use these programmes to strengthen our party with an aim to come to power in the next elections. People are looking up to us and we are urging them to be patient for one more year.
