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Amit Shah will arrive in Hyderabad on Saturday (archive)
Hyderabad:
Union Interior Minister Amit Shah, who arrives in Hyderabad on Saturday morning, will start his day with a visit to the Bhagyanagar Temple which stands next to the 429-year-old Charminar.
The choice of the Hindu temple amid a campaign that has hit highly polarized notes already reinforces the dominant narrative of the BJP election campaign for the municipal polls in Hyderabad.
BJP State President Bandi Sanjay, known for his provocative speeches, has already declared that his “Vijay Yatra” or victory lap after winning the mayoral election would start from there as well.
“They ask, why the Bhagyanagar temple? I say, why not the Bhagyanagar temple? Is it in Pakistan? They say it will lead to fighting between India and Pakistan? Why? Are you saying the temple it is in Pakistan. If they say yes, then we will carry out surgical strikes to eradicate the illegal Rohingya, Pakistani and Afghans, on whose vote TRS-MIM depends, “he had previously said.
Mr. Shah’s visit to the temple will be followed by a tour of the Sanath Nagar, Khairatabad and Jubilee Hills constituencies.
Earlier on Friday, a light rain and a cool breeze brought by Cyclone Nivar, now a deep depression, set the scene for a colorful roadshow led by BJP National President JP Nadda in Hyderabad.
This came just a day after the BJP promised in its manifesto that it would give 25,000 rupees to each family affected by the October floods that devastated many parts of the city.
The ruler Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) had announced a flood relief of 10,000 rupees for all families affected by the flood. Congress promised up to Rs 50,000.
Nadda’s roadshow was followed by a meeting with intellectuals.
Local elections in Hyderabad have BJP A-listers flying into the city for a campaign that has become less and less about roads and sanitation.
Both Nadda and Shah’s visit to the city this weekend, and activists like Yogi Adityanath and Smriti Irani before it, mean that the ruling party’s formidable electoral machinery is focused entirely on the set of municipal districts in the main center of India IT.
Voting will take place in 150 municipal constituencies, or districts, at the ballot box of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) on December 1 and a mayor will be elected for the corporation that has a budget of Rs 5,380 crore this year .
The ruling TRS dominated the latest civic polls. This year, Prime Minister K Chandrashekar Rao or “KCR” faces a BJP determined to prove that his recent unexpected victory in an assembly by election was no accident.
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