Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) national president Nitin Nabin on Tuesday announced that the party’s central leadership has adopted Telangana as a “special mission” and expressed confidence that the saffron party will form the government in the state after the 2028 Lok Sabha elections.
Addressing the BJP’s Telangana state executive meeting, Nabin repeatedly cited the party’s experience in West Bengal and urged the workers to replicate the same organizational model and grassroots struggle in Telangana.
He said the enthusiasm among party workers and growing confidence among people during his two-day visit to the state convinced him that “the coming days belong to the BJP in Telangana”.
“The BJP national leadership has taken Telangana as a special mission. It is the responsibility of every party worker to make this mission a success,” he said.
Drawing parallels between the BJP’s campaign in West Bengal and its plans in Telangana, Nabin said the party has proven that sustained popular mobilization can turn around its political fortunes even under adverse circumstances.
Recalling the BJP’s journey in West Bengal, he said the party had only three MLAs in 2016 but continued its struggle despite political violence, attacks on workers and intimidation.
“Many ask how we achieved success in West Bengal. The answer is our ideology, our leadership and the tireless efforts of our workers. Despite violence, arrests, harassment and attacks, our workers never backed down. They chose the path of struggle, and it is this unwavering commitment that has enabled the lotus flower to flourish in West Bengal,” he said.
He claimed that BJP workers in West Bengal faced police action, imprisonment, physical assaults and assaults on women workers, while the opposition parties, including the Congress, remained silent.
Using West Bengal as a model, Nabin called on BJP cadres in Telangana to launch sustained agitations on public issues, corruption and alleged failures of the Congress government.
“If BJP workers fight united and remain committed to people’s issues, I am fully confident that victory in Telangana in 2028 will be for the BJP,” he said.
Using a symbolic political slogan, Nabin said that the BJP has successfully expanded across regions historically associated with Anga, Banga and Kalinga, and asserted that now is the time for the lotus to flourish in ‘Trilinga Bhoomi’ – Telangana.
He urged party workers to strengthen the organization from the ward level upwards, and described ward committees as the basis of electoral success.
The BJP’s organizational structure draws its strength from booth-level workers, with the Mandal, district, state and national leadership built on that grassroots network, Nabin said.
Nabin launched a sharp attack on the Congress government in Telangana and alleged that it had failed to fulfill its election promises even after two and a half years of assuming power.
He questioned whether the government had provided the unemployment allowance or financial assistance promised to the women and accused the Congress of focusing more on pleasing the ‘Delhi Durbar’ rather than meeting the aspirations of the people of Telangana.
“Congress is using Telangana like an ATM to fund its policies in Delhi,” he alleged.
Nabin also alleged that the previous BRS government fell due to corruption and dynastic rule, specifically referring to the Kaleshwaram project, and claimed that the Congress government was continuing the same political culture.
He alleged that the Congress, BRS and AIMIM have common political interests and reiterated the BJP’s opposition to religion-based reservations. He said that if the BJP comes to power in Telangana, these reservations will be withdrawn and the benefits will extend to the Scheduled Castes, Backward Classes and Scheduled Tribes.
Nabin asserted that the BJP will not make the Congress’s failures alone the focus of its campaign but will primarily seek votes on the performance of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government over the past 12 years.
Nabin called on party workers to visit every family and urged them to announce the achievements of the Modi government while exposing what he described as the failures of the Congress government.
