HYDERABAD: BJP national president Nitin Nabin will visit Karimnagar on November 18 to participate in a Maha Padayatra organised by the party to counter the I.N.D.I.A. bloc’s campaign against the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls.
The padayatra will begin at Gandhi Circle and Vysya Bhavan, pass through Tower Circle and conclude at Kaman. Nabin is expected to participate alongside Telangana BJP president Ramachandra Rao, Union minister of state for home affairs and Karimnagar MP Bandi Sanjay Kumar. The party expects around one lakh people to attend the event.
Sanjay Kumar held a preparatory meeting with the Karimnagar parliamentary constituency core committee at his MP office on Monday to review arrangements for the programme.
Addressing party leaders, he said the padayatra was being organised on a large scale as it would mark Nabin’s first visit to the district. He directed party functionaries to conduct meetings at the polling booth, Shakti Kendra and mandal levels to mobilise participants. He also asked them to use traditional and social media to publicise the event.
The BJP has positioned the padayatra as a response to what it described as a “misinformation campaign” by the Congress and the INDIA bloc against the Election Commission and other constitutional institutions over the SIR exercise.
Sanjay Kumar alleged that the Opposition was attempting to weaken democratic institutions through baseless allegations. He said Nabin would address the issue during the programme and present the party’s position to the public.
The proposed visit follows Union home minister Amit Shah’s recent tour of Telangana. BJP leaders said the padayatra would serve as an organisational outreach programme and provide a platform to counter the Opposition’s campaign on the revision of electoral rolls.
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