Uttar Pradesh Prime Minister Yogi Adityanath held a grand tour in Hyderabad on Sunday as part of the BJP’s high-profile campaign for municipal elections next week. Yogi Adityanath was standing on a makeshift platform on top of a bus, with the BJP head of state and Karimnagar MP Bandi Sanjay on his right, as the vehicle passed through a sea of saffron in the Jeedimetla area.
The roadshow featured dancers from the cultural traditions of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana (the two Telugu states), as well as Kerala, Punjab, Rajasthan, and UP, an indication that the BJP will leave no stone unturned to try to make their mark on this choice.
The UP Prime Minister followed up the tour with a public meeting at Lal Darwaza in Hyderabad’s Old City, which is widely viewed as a stronghold of All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM). At the meeting, Yogi Adityanath praised Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Interior Minister Amit Shah for the withdrawal of Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir.
“Under the leadership of Prime Minister Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah (we) repealed Article 370, giving the people of Hyderabad and Telangana complete freedom to buy land in Jammu and Kashmir,” he declared in an election speech for the elections. civics of a city. facing infrastructure problems such as electricity supply and flooding due to rains.
Yogi Adityanath also claimed that Hyderabad would be renamed Bhagyanagar if the BJP came to power.
“Some people ask me if Hyderabad can be renamed to Bhagyanagar. I said, why not? I told them that we changed the name of Faizabad as Ayodhya and Allahabad as Prayagraj after the BJP assumed power in UP. So Why can’t Hyderabad be renamed to Bhagyanagar? “He said.
Fueled by its victory in an Assembly vote for Dubbaka’s seat earlier this month, the BJP has targeted this Hyderabad election as an opportunity to carve out a spot in the southern state.
So far, the party has only managed to make inroads in Karnataka, where it formed the government after the controversial fall of the Congress-JDS coalition last year.
It has unleashed an army of A members, including Amit Shah, party boss JP Nadda, and union ministers Smriti Irani and Prakash Javadekar, all of whom have targeted (or are expected to target) what the party calls the party’s “unholy alliance”. ruler. Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) and Asaduddin Owaisi’s AIMIM.
Although the polls involve the election of a mayor, and the pertinent issues are supplying water, power and electricity to the city’s nearly 10 million residents, the campaign has revolved around controversial comments on Pakistan, Mohammad Ali Jinnah , accusations of Rohingya infiltrators and a Hindu. Muslim narrative.
South Bangalore MP Tejasvi Surya called Mr Owaisi an “avatar of Mohammad Ali Jinnah” and accused the Hyderabad MP of bringing “Rohingya Muslims instead of development” to the city.
Police have alerted to such comments, saying that political speeches will be monitored and that action will be taken against anything deemed inflammatory.
Earlier this week, Prime Minister K Chandrashekar Rao, or KCR, responded and warned people that voting for the BJP would mean an “unsafe” Hyderabad.
“There will be curfews, stabbings and violence … (it will be) an unsafe city,” he said, adding that the BJP believes in a “Hyderabad for the few.”
In the last municipal elections, the BJP won only four seats, while the TRS claimed 99 to achieve an extremely comfortable victory.
Four years later, the BJP campaign is not just about civic polls and securing a tenfold increase, but also about the 2023 Telangana Assembly elections and taking control of a second southern state.
Voting for the 150 districts will take place on December 1 and the results will be delivered on December 4.
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