PNS|Hyderabad
The BJP’s Dubbaka MLA, M. Raghunandan Rao, said that he has been facing injustice in every step and that not only the state committee but the party’s central committee too did not care for him.
He said that the BJP central committee did not give him the national official spokesperson post even after he appealed to the committee in person.
“I asked the party to give me the BJP Floor Leader post but that was not given. Even Goshamahal MLA T. Raja Singh called Telangana BJP President Sanjay and asked him to give the BJP Floor Leader post to me as Raja Singh is now not in the party. But they did not care about it. Can the party’s Assembly unit function without a Floor Leader?” he asked.
Speaking to the media on Thursday, Raghunandan said the party gave the BJP National Executive Committee Member post to Huzurabad MLA Eatala Rajender who joined the party only recently. The party gave BJP National Executive Committee Member posts to Vijayashanthi, Jithender Reddy and Vivek but gave me nothing, Raghunandan said.
He said that Sanjay had asked him not to conduct a press meeting on the Amnesia Pub issue at the State BJP office. He said that the BJP high command spoke to Eatala Rajender and Komatireddy Rajgopal Reddy as they have money by calling them to New Delhi. But the high command did not invite me any time, he said.
“How long would I be like this? I was convinced when the party said that it is going to give the State party leadership to BCs. But I will not accept if the party gives the State party leadership to upper caste leaders. I explained all these issues to BJP president Nadda when he came to Hyderabad recently. Nadda asked me to wait for a few days,” he said.
Raghunandan said that the party did not invite him for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s public meeting, or the meetings of Nadda and Amit Shah.
“When asked about it, Konda Vishweshwar Reddy expressed helplessness,” he said. But the party invited Eatala Rajender for all meetings. He asked as to why party in-charges Tarun Chugh and Sunil Bansal are not caring about him.
He said that there is no BJP floor leader even in the Karimnagar Corporation as Bandi did not appoint one. The BJP has a Floor Leader only in the Nizamabad corporation.
He made it clear that the Dubbaka by-poll was the turning point for the BJP in Telangana.
“I don’t know why the party is not giving me priority. The party has to remember that the party got its josh after my victory. I am now facing injustice. The State BJP unit is ignoring me intentionally and at the same time the national leadership is also not caring about me,” he said.
