The Bharatiya Janata Party in Andhra Pradesh is getting ready to take on Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu’s campaign against the party and Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The party had come up with a plan of visiting every house in the State soon.
Party new chief Kanna Lakshminarayana, a staunch critic of Chandrababu Naidu is building up activities. The task is to give facts to the people on the Central government’s support given to the State in the last four years and counter the ‘malicious’ campaign of Chandrababu Naidu against BJP and Narendra Modi.
Kanna Lakshminarayana claims that the Central government is rolling out funds to the State under 155 welfare schemes and alleges that Chandrababu Naidu had renamed every scheme without giving credit to Prime Minister Narendra Modi or the Central government. The housing scheme is renamed as NTR housing. The insurance scheme is renamed as Chandranna Bhima. The Swacch Bharat toilets are claimed as State government contribution. The cement roads are renamed as Chandranna Baata. The uninterrupted power supply and the LED lights are claimed as Chandrababu Naidu’s initiative. The pensions too are claimed as Chandrababu Naidu’s gesture to the people. The BJP feels that all these are to be countered and explained to the people.
By taking up such a massive campaign, the BJP wants to damage Chandrababu Naidu’s image in the villages. “We are focusing on getting better mileage to BJP and Prime Minister Modi. We will succeed in this. If we fail to get people to back us, at least our campaign will expose Chandrababu Naidu and damage his electoral prospects,” is what the BJP leaders believe.
The BJP is comparatively weak in the State. But invisibly it has the strong support of the RSS and VHP, whose presence is there in every village. There is at least one family in every village in the State that follows the RSS or VHP activities. These are the committed families and work with dedication that can beat even the Communist parties. These families, though rarely interfere with the political activities of the BJP, stand for the party during the election and at every crisis. They now feel the threat to the BJP and Narendra Modi in the next election and are set to give their best for the party. It is this force that the BJP is banking on now under the leadership of Kanna Lakshminarayana.
Leaders like Somu Veerraju and P N V Madhav, both MLCs, have such a background in the party. There are many leaders in BJP who have come from either RSS or VHP background, which is seen as advantage for BJP in countering Chandrababu Naidu.
