BRS shifts into aggressive mode
The Bharat Rashtra Samithi has intensified its campaign against the Telangana government, focusing on farmers' issues, alleged irregularities and organisational rebuilding. Senior leaders are touring the state to strengthen grassroots support and prepare for sustained political mobilisation ahead of future elections
Hyderabad: Having pressed the Congress government on State debt, the Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Scheme, and a series of alleged irregularities, the BRS has moved into an openly aggressive political mode. After largely confining itself to raising public issues in the initial two years of the Congress government, the party is now preparing for sustained agitations, organisational rebuilding, and a renewed Telangana-centric campaign.
The shift is visible in the stepped-up tours of BRS working president KT Rama Rao and BRSLP deputy leader T Harish Rao, who have intensified constituency visits, cadre interactions, and issue-based campaigns across the State. Party president K Chandrashekhar Rao is understood to be providing strategic direction, while Rama Rao and Harish Rao have been entrusted with leading the political and organisational revival on the ground.
Though the tours were primarily planned to sensitise the party cadre on the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, membership drive and also prepare them for an organisational overhaul, both Rama Rao and Harish Rao are using them as platforms to tear into the ruling Congress’s failures and irregularities which had not only boosted the morales of the party cadre, but also stirred up discussion among rural population especially farmers.
Party leaders reminded that this sustained attack was part of the long-term strategy adopted by the BRS following a State executive body meeting chaired by the party chief and former Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao a couple of months ago. Apart from Rama Rao and Harish Rao, senior BRS leaders and elected representatives are also holding strategic meetings with the party cadre within their respective constituencies regularly.
Farmers’ concerns have emerged as the BRS’ principal campaign theme. Having mounted attacks on the Congress over State borrowings and Kaleshwaram, Rama Rao and Harish Rao consistently targeting the Congress government over the implementation of Rythu Bharosa, farm loan waivers, procurement delays, irrigation, fertiliser availability and other agriculture-related issues. The party also plans to widen its campaign to include unemployment, welfare implementation, fee reimbursement, governance, reservations and alleged corruption, seeking to maintain continuous political pressure through protests, public meetings, the Assembly and social media.
Asserting itself as the only party dedicated exclusively to Telangana’s interests, the BRS is seeking to reconnect with supporters of the Statehood movement while expanding its appeal among youth, women, and urban voters. As part of the outreach, KTR has been holding constituency-wise meetings across Hyderabad and other districts, while Harish Rao has intensified interactions with farmers and local party workers.
Outreach programmes targeting students, unemployed youth, and first-time voters are already in the pipeline, with larger mobilisation exercises including padayatras and bus yatras under consideration.
Meanwhile, the BRS has accelerated the restructuring of booth, village, mandal and district committees, alongside an intensive membership drive aimed at rebuilding its grassroots network. Constituency-level meetings are being used to identify active workers, induct younger leadership and prepare the organisation for sustained political activity rather than election-time mobilisation alone.
Senior leaders said there is a growing public dissatisfaction over the implementation of the Congress government’s election promises and the BRS is making all efforts to convert it into electoral support for itself. By combining organisational consolidation with sustained public campaigns, the BRS is positioning itself for a long-term comeback and entering into a new phase of political rebuilding with its eyes firmly on the next electoral battle.
