Hyderabad: Eatala Rajender, the newly-elected MP from the Malkajgiri constituency, is more likely to be appointed because the president of the BJP’s Telangana unit, a celebration chief acquainted with the matter stated.
Rajender met senior BJP leaders and union residence minister Amit Shah in New Delhi to current his case for the state chief publish, rather than G Kishan Reddy, who was inducted to the union cupboard for a second successive time period.
A BJP chief in Telangana, who refused to be quoted, stated that Rajender had lobbied for a berth within the union cupboard, however couldn’t get the prospect, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi had already determined to retain Kishan Reddy and take Bandi Sanjay within the cupboard. “There was no means the Modi may accommodate greater than two out of eight BJP MPs in Telangana,” he stated, including that after failing to make it to the cupboard, Rajender requested for the BJP state president publish.
He additional stated that BJP’s nationwide management has tentatively determined to make an OBC chief because the state BJP president. “We proposed to make OBC because the chief minister if the BJP involves energy in Telangana. Because it didn’t occur, the celebration nationwide management needs at hand over the celebration reins to an OBC chief,” the celebration chief stated.
“Eatala has a good probability, as he’s a powerful OBC chief with great organising capabilities and his appointment would undoubtedly assist consolidate the OBC vote financial institution within the state. However he’s a comparatively new comer to the BJP, having defected from the BRS by which he had held key positions,” the BJP chief quoted above stated.
However, the chief additionally stated that the choice will solely be made after the BJP chooses the celebration’s nationwide president.
At current, there are two distinguished OBC leaders within the state BJP who could possibly be thought-about for the celebration chief publish. One is Rajya Sabha member and BJP nationwide OBC Morcha president Dr Ok Laxman and one other is Eatala Rajender.
Laxman had held the BJP state chief publish up to now between 2016 and 2020, however below his management, the celebration carried out poorly within the 2018 meeting elections in Telangana, successful only one MLA seat within the 119-member meeting.
“On that rely, Eatala has a good probability, as he’s a powerful OBC chief with great organising capabilities and his appointment would undoubtedly assist consolidate the OBC vote financial institution within the state. However he’s a comparatively new comer to the BJP, having defected from the Bharat Rashtra Samithi by which he had held key positions,” the BJP chief quoted above stated.
“Furthermore, he has no ideological background of the BJP. In reality, he has a Leftist background. It’s not sure how he would take the BJP leaders and cadre alongside within the coming years, if he’s made the state BJP chief,” he stated.