Hyderabad: The no-holds-barred approach of BJP state president Bandi Sanjay Kumar clearly gave the party an unprecedented historic presence of 48 seats in the GHMC Council and laid the stepping stone to directly challenge the TRS for power in the 2023 Assembly elections.
In one fell swoop, Sanjay established the BJP as the clear challenger to the TRS.
Analysts had expected that Sanjay pushing an aggressive agenda during the GHMC poll campaign, threatening ‘surgical strikes’ on the Old City and bringing up the issue of Rohingya, Pakistani and Bangladeshi illegal immigrants, to prove counter-productive, but it seems to have clicked instead.
The results will add momentum to the BJP’s drive, after the Dubbak byelection victory last month, to win power in the state elections.
Sanjay with the support of party senior leaders including Union minister G. Kishan Reddy designed a perfect strategy and deployed a galaxy of national-level leaders in the campaign which created…