Former minister and BRS leader T Harish Rao said that all those defected MLAs should be ready to face by-elections. Addressing BRS activists at Patancheru on Wednesday, he asserted that defection of few MLAs and leaders cannot damage the party. He recalled that KCR started the movement in 2001 with a handful of people.
He said that KCR has been facing conspiracies from the beginning. Then also, 12 MLAs from his party were hijacked by the then Chief Minister YS Rajasekhar Reddy. However, the party has never withering with the departure of MLAs.
Defection of Patancheru MLA into Congress, he said, will bring good leadership for the party, but the party flag will fly again. He said that they have mainly focused on development during the ten-year rule. He asked the party cadre to be prepared for a by-election.
However, he admitted party activists and leaders were neglected during this period and assured that now onwards the party’s focus will be on them.
Harish Rao said that the conspiracies of the day did not work and justice would prevail in the end. He said that KCR won the state after 14 years of struggle. He commented that those who said that the work of the BRS party was over disappeared later.
“If the MLA goes away, the party will not go away. There are good activists in Patancheru. Whenever there is an election here, the pink flag will fly again. Mahipal Reddy won only if you all worked hard”, he said.
He appealed to the party activists not to sleep until MLAs who have changed parties became ex-MLAs. He wondered when Mahipal Reddy was given a party ticket three times and he had won all times, why did he change the party?
Harish Rao said that the party will be completely purged. He called to work hard till the pink flag is hoisted again. He said that all the people are seeing what has happened in the state now. He said now people are comparing KCR’s rule with Congress rule.