Chief Minister of Telangana K. Chandrasekhar Rao. file. , Photo Credit: Nagra Gopal
Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao will address his first public meeting outside Telangana on Sunday when he moves to Maharashtra’s Nanded city to begin a new inning in his political career as the president of a national party by the name of Bharat Rashtra Samithi.
However, the first public meeting of the BRS was held in Khammam last month, which was attended by CPI general secretary D. Raja along with chief ministers of Delhi, Punjab and Kerala and former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Akhilesh Yadav.
Mr. Chandrasekhar Rao had only attended a rally of the National Democratic Alliance in 2009 after breaking away from the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance.
The city of Nanded was decked up for the occasion with a large and well decorated stage and pink pylons set up for kilometres. Huge hoardings, balloons and stickers attracted people. The organizers took the arrangements in terms of prestige as this was the first meeting at the national level. Endowments Minister A. Indrakaran Reddy, who hails from neighboring Nirmal district, led the team of BRS involved in the arrangements. He traveled extensively in the surrounding villages to arrange for mobilization.
Party sources said thirty-two sarpanches, some chairmen of zilla parishads and former legislators are set to attend.