K Venkateshwarlu
Hyderabad
The arch-rivals, the BJP and the Congress, have decided to fight the Assembly elections through their ‘War Rooms.’ The Congress is getting ready thinking that the ruling BRS is its only opponent in the Assembly elections. The BJP too is getting ready in the same manner assuming that the BRS is its sole opponent. Both the Congress and the BJP are chalking out strategies to use the next 100 days effectively.
The BJP and the Congress are setting up ‘War Rooms’ in their State offices for the elections. The BJP is setting up a War Room in its State office. However, the Congress is going to shift its disturbed existing War Room to Indira Bhavan.
The BJP has already allotted space for its War Room in its State office at Nampally. Moreover, the BJP has taken a decision to appoint its national spokesperson Jaffer Islam as its War Room in-charge. The BJP has also appointed a media strategy team to get close to the people.
The BJP appointed its national leader Swetha as the media strategy team in-charge. The party handed over the responsibility of managing the social media to Nizamabad MP Dharmapuri Arvind and Yoganand. The party handed over the responsibility of coordinating its social media moves to senior leaders N. Indrasena Reddy and Chintala Ramachandra Reddy.
The BJP has also set up 22 special committees for the elections. The party has also prepared an action plan to hold a press conference of one of its National Executive Committee members every day. It is learnt that Union Home Minister Amit Shah will supervise these moves directly.
Meanwhile, the Congress, which has a War Room somewhere in the city, is going to shift it to Indira Bhavan, which was being used by the Andhra Pradesh Congress unit. It may be recalled that the police raided the Congress war room and seized computers and other gadgets some time back.However, the Congress has already requested APCC President Gidugu Rudra Raju to hand over Indira Bhavan in view of the elections. Already, AICC Secretary Mansoor Ali Khan, PCC Senior Vice-President Mallu Ravi, leaders N. Preetham and Charan Kaushik have checked out Indira Bhavan. The building has three floors and the party may use the third floor for training classes.
The party will supervise the elections from this War Room by appointing 17 coordinators for the 17 Lok Sabha constituencies and 119 coordinators for 119 Assembly constituencies. The party has also decided to appoint a facilitator for every 10 booths and a booth-level agent for every booth.
The Congress will take over Indira Bhavan very soon. The party will appoint Mallu Ravi as the head of its War Room to supervise it along with some other leaders, it is learnt.
