Hyderabad: Former Haryana Governor and Union Minister Bandaru Dattatreya said that nobody believed that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) would one day form the government at the Centre, when just 2 MPs from BJP had won in the 1984 Lok Sabha elections, but all of them were proven wrong, as presently the saffron party has established its government in 19 states across the country.
Speaking at the 47th BJP’s foundation Day (Sthapna Diwas) celebrated at the party’s headquarters in Nampally on Monday, April 6, Dattatreya spoke about how various parties came together against the Congress government during the emergency imposed by former prime minister Indira Gandhi in 1975 under the umbrella of Janata Party, and came to power in the 1977 Lok Sabha elections.
Reminiscing his and other RSS leaders’ jail years during the emergency era, he said even they were apprehensive about when they would be released, as the elections were taking place in such circumstances, but the surprise of Janata Party’s win did happen.
“The emergency era was considered the second struggle for freedom,” he noted.
“Because of the internal differences in the Janata Party the government collapsed. They had asked the Jan Sangh MPs to choose whether they wanted to be with RSS or Bharatiya Jan Sangh, because they would have membership with only one of those two organisations. But we told them clearly that we couldn’t leave RSS which is our mother party. That was what led to the formation of BJP,” Dattatreya said.
He asked the BJP leaders to serve selflessly without thinking about themselves, keeping the country first before their families, and expressed confidence in BJP forming the government in Telangana after the next assembly elections in 2028.
BJP’s vote share increasing in Kerala: Ramchander Rao
BJP State President N Ramchander Rao, who welcomed several Congress workers who joined BJP on the occasion, alleged that Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy has submitted Hyderabad to All India Majlis-E-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) by trifurcating the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC), and merging Hydernagar and Rajendranagar with Hyderabad, though they were in Rangareddy district earlier.
He alleged that the chief minister had brought the Hyderabad Industrial Land Transfer (HILT) policy, and the Hyderabad Disaster Response and Asset Protection Agency (HYDRAA), to displace the poor and grab their lands.
Observing that the vote share of BJP had increased in Keralam, though the number of seats haven’t increased considerably, Ramchander Rao pointed out how the Thiruvananthapuram Municipal Corporation has been bagged by the saffron party recently. He said this time around, the party would put up a good show in the Keralam assembly elections.
He also predicted that BJP will form the government in Tamil Nadu in the assembly elections scheduled this month.
He said the day was not far when BJP would come to power in Telangana.
Union Coal and Mines Minister G Kishan Reddy celebrated the occasion by hoisting the BJP’s flag at his residence in Kachiguda.
Bandi Sanjay holds get together with Bengalis in Hyderabad
Union Minister of State for Home Affairs Bandi Sanjay held a get together with the Bengalis living in the Old City on the occasion, and sought their support in influencing the votes back home, so that BJP could come to power in West Bengal.
He accused West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee of shielding “the infiltrators” from Bangladesh and Myanmar, and blocking the Centre’s attempts to protect the state’s borders.
He also accused the Congress government in the undivided Andhra Pradesh before the formation of Telangana in 2014 of doing the same in Hyderabad, by not only sheltering the Bagladeshis and Rohingyas, but also issuing them aadhar cards and voter IDs, which he said the BRS and Congress continued to do.
He questioned why the Telangana police was not taking any action against the AIMIM leaders who were resorting to obstructing encroachment drives by the GHMC.
He also alleged that even in such demolitions, the businesses having the support of AIMIM leaders were coming back up again, while Revanth Reddy stayed mum and looked the other way.
