Bandaru Dattatreya

NEW DELHI: The Bharatiya Janata Party on Tuesday decided to step up its campaign on Telangana issue, including clearance for introducing private member's bill in the Budget session of Parliament beginning February 23.

The BJP State party president Bandaru Dattatreya, who was here to attend a meeting of its central election committee, said that the party would field candidates to eight graduates' constituencies and support Upadhyaya Parishad in two of the eight seats in teachers' constituencies for the March 17 Legislative Council polls. Candidates for the graduates' constituencies would be Prithviraj (Visakhapatnam, Srikakulam, Vizianagaram), Raka Satyanarayana (East and West Godavari), Papa Rao (Guntur and Vijayawada), Y. Radhakrishna Reddy (Chittoor, Nellore and Prakasam), Parthasarathy (Cuddapah, Kurnool and Anantapur), G.R. Karunakar (Hyderabad, Mahbubnagar and Ranga Reddy), Gujjala Narsaiah (Warangal, Khammam and Nalgonda), and Venkata Narayan Reddy (Karimnagar, Adilabad and Medak).

Party's strategy

As for the party's strategy for those to be elected by members of the Legislative Assembly, Mr. Dattatreya said, the BJP would prefer to put up its own candidates though they stood no chance with just two MLAs. He said BJP president Rajnath Singh had said that the party would extend support to the Andhra Pradesh unit's stand on Telangana. "We will expose the Congress Government which had been talking of Second SRC,'' he said.

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