Eatala Rajender, the chairman of the Telangana BJP’s committee, had a secret meeting with expelled BRS leaders, Jupally Krishna Rao and Ponguleti Srinivas Reddy, at his farmhouse in the outskirts of Hyderabad. The meeting was held to persuade the leaders to join the Saffron party in the state. The meeting lasted for more than four hours, and secrecy was maintained as neither Eatala’s followers nor his gunmen knew about it.
The meeting has led to political speculations as these two leaders were keeping their options open. The BJP leadership had sent the committee of joinings to Khammam to meet these two leaders recently. Both the leaders said that they would inform the party after having a thought. The BJP leaders said that Rajender has intensified his efforts to strengthen the party ever since his visit to New Delhi and meeting with party seniors including President JP Nadda and state incharge Sunil Bansal.
However, there is not much progress in the joining of leaders from other parties despite Rajender being the chairman of the committee during the last one year. Sources said that the national party leadership wants these two leaders to join the BJP as there were speculations that these two were looking to join Congress especially after its victory in Karnataka.
