Hyderabad: Bharat Rashtra Samithi president K. Chandrashekar Rao instructed party leaders to prepare for bypolls in all constituencies held by MLAs who defected from BRS, following the Supreme Court ruling on disqualification petitions.
Responding from his Erravelli farmhouse, the former chief minister said the apex court’s order made it clear that the Speaker must decide within three months and dismissed the plea seeking direct intervention by the judiciary. The court also set aside the Telangana High Court division bench’s earlier verdict.
KCR told party cadres that bypolls in these constituencies were now certain. He asked local leaders to begin groundwork immediately and shift focus to winning upcoming local body elections. Structural reorganisation of the party, he said, would follow only after the polls.
Attacking the Congress government’s silence over Andhra Pradesh’s Banakacharla project, Rao accused Chief Minister Revanth Reddy of failing to counter aggressive claims from Andhra leaders, including CM N. Chandrababu Naidu and Minister Nara Lokesh. He said this silence must be exposed publicly.
Rao claimed a stronger BRS presence in the Lok Sabha would have enabled a tougher stand on the Banakacharla issue. He criticised Telangana Congress and BJP MPs for their ineffectiveness and blamed them for the state’s losses.
He called for a legal and political campaign against the Banakacharla project, including a petition to the Supreme Court and public rallies. The party is also planning a delegation to meet the President of India after a scheduled rally in Karimnagar on August 8 to press for BC reservation implementation.
KCR instructed party functionaries to intensify pressure on both the Centre and the state over BC quotas.
