Hyderabad: Telangana chief minister and Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) chief K Chandrashekar Rao (KCR) embarked on a two-day trip to Maharashtra on Monday.
Rao was accompanied by a convoy of nearly 600 vehicles, which included state ministers, MPs, MLCs, MLAs and other senior party leaders.
The CM will travel to Solapur by road. During his visit, Rao is likely meet several leaders of Maharashtra as well as families of handloom workers who migrated there from Telangana.
On Tuesday morning, KCR will proceed towards the temple town of Pandharpur, where he will visit the famous Lord Vitthal temple. He will also take part in in special pujas.
Sources said, a popular leader from the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) is likely to join BRS in Solapur in the presence of K Chandrashekar Rao.
The BRS supremo recently inaugurated a party office in Nagpur in Maharashtra’s Vidarbha region.
KCR’s visit is seen as a significant move for BRS, will pave the way for expansion of BRS in Maharashtra. The pink party is planning a campaign in all 288 Assembly constituencies of the western state by highlighting the ‘Telangana development model’.
Maharashtra has been the main focus of BRS ever since it became a national party in December last year. The CM has so far addressed five public meetings in the neighbouring states highlighting the ‘Telangana model of development’.
At his public meeting on May 19, he announced a month-long programme to expand BRS across Maharashtra.
Inaugurating a training camp for the party leaders, he had said the BRS will undertake an extensive campaign across more than 45,000 villages and 5,000 municipal wards.
Several activists and leaders from NCP and other parties in Maharashtra joined the BRS during the last six months.
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