Hyderabad: The Telangana unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) announced that Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address a public meeting at Mahabubnagar in Telangana on September 30.
The meeting would be held at 1 pm at the ITI Ground at Bhoothpur in Mahabubnagar, state BJP general secretary G Premender Reddy said in a press note on Saturday, October 1.
Union minister and state BJP chief G Kishan Reddy and other party leaders will attend the rally, he added.
The public meeting comes close to the state elections end of this year. The state BJP leaders had earlier planned to undertake a bus yatra but they have now changed their mind and are now planning public meetings in Assembly segments.
The party is expected to finalise the candidates by next month. It has already received more than 6,000 applications from ticket aspirants. The saffron party is likely to announce its candidates for all 119 constituencies in three phases.
The BJP leaders claimed that the large number of applications reflect the huge support the party enjoys among the people. However, the party has not yet formed a state election committee to screen the names and make recommendations to the central leadership.
The saffron party, which is busy finalizing its poll strategy, is also planning to organise public meetings to be addressed by Union Home Minister Amit Shah and BJP president J P. Nadda. These meetings are expected to cover a few districts.
(With inputs from IANS)
