Hyderabad: The BRS has begun making preparations to protect its civic elections’ winners from ‘external influences’ and has put in place a plan to keep them safe in camps to prevent their being poached by other parties, particularly the Congress, after the results are announced on Friday.
BRS working president K.T. Rama Rao on Thursday held a teleconference with party leaders to chalk out plans on ensuring that every winning corporator, or municipal councillor, of the party is protected from being poached. To do that, the party has planned to have ‘camps’ where its winning candidates can be secluded and shepherded into till the elections to the posts of chairpersons and deputy chairpersons, mayors and deputy mayors, are completed on Monday next. Plans for this been put in place in Suryapet, and Medak districts where the party expects to put up a good performance.
The BRS believes that it would come a close second in many of the urban local bodies, and Rama Rao, during the teleconference, is learnt to have made it clear that party leaders – incumbent and former MPs, MLCs and MLAs – must ensure that all the BRS winners were ‘protected’ to ensure that they do not fall prey to inducements from the Congress.
“This is particularly so where we may come a close second, or where there are no clear winners. The ruling Congress will have the obvious advantage of making promises and luring winners from other parties to its fold. We do not want that to happen, at least to our party. We will take steps to ensure this, even if it means having our winners gathered in one place for the required duration,” a senior party leader said.
The BRS, which contested all the seven municipal corporations, and 116 municipalities
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