After sounding the poll bugle for the 2014 Assembly elections by holding a state-level meeting of the party, state Congress president Botcha Satyanarayana is all set to hit the road to rejuvenate the party cadre as well as to consolidate his position in the party.
In what can be seen as a move to vie with chief minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy’s Indiramma Baata in the runup to the polls, Botcha is going to kick-start his own mass-contact programme, probably from the first week of January.
The aim is to publicise the welfare schemes of the governments at the Centre and in the state as well as to rejuvenate the cadre across the state.
Sources said that the PCC chief is considering three auspicious dates _ January 3, 5 and 7 _ to embark on his state-wide tour.
Though the PCC chief is considering several names to christen his mass-contact programme, he is learnt to have zeroed in on “Mee Nidhulu Meeke” (Your Funds are Only for You).
“I will visit several villages during a week-long tour of every district every month. I will involve party leaders from the village to the district level in publicising the government schemes,” he told his confidants at Gandhi Bhavan here on Friday.
The PCC chief said he was not competing with the chief minister in touring the state as the purposes of the two tours were different.
He was undertaking the tour as a party programme to know the organisational lapses in the party, he claimed.
According to sources, the PCC chief will hold meetings with the party’s second- rung leaders and workers and take feedback from them on government schemes. He will also elicit the opinions of the party’s local leaders to strengthen the party.
Though Botcha claims that his tour is aimed at strengthening the party, chief minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy’s camp is suspicious of the PCC chief’s intentions.
Botcha’s detractors see it as a bid to position himself for the chief minister’s post after 2014.
To give scope to his nitpickers’ doubts, the state Congress boss is nowadays being soft on the Samaikyandhra issue probably to gain acceptability in that region should he throw his hat in the ring after 2014.
The PCC chief, who often said there was nothing wrong if Telugus had two states, is refraining from such talk now.
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