Union Minister for Culture and Tourism G Kishan Reddy is on a three-day tour titled Jana Ashirwada Yatra that aims at explaining the schemes and programmes that were brought by Narendra Modi under his tenure as Prime Minister.
Unlike other yatras, the Jana Ashirwada Yatra will be held at selected places by covering eight parliamentary constituencies.
He started the Jana Ashirwada Yatra at the temple city Tirupati and covered the Vijayawada constituency too. He will reach Telangana by today evening and cover the remaining constituencies.
While the BJP is pinning hopes that the Yatra will help the party in getting strong in Telugu states, we have to see how the Yatra can help the party.
The main thing that is stopping the BJP from establishing itself as one of the leading parties in Andhra Pradesh is lack of active participation of leaders in the events.
Unless there is any election, we hardly see any leaders from the Andhra Pradesh wing of BJP in the state. The voters are also not taking the party seriously.
Compared to Andhra Pradesh, the BJP situation is better in Telangana, the saffron party has representation in Assembly and the Lok Sabha as well.
Kishan Reddy addressed the media after offering prayers to lord Venkateswara in Tirupati and said, the Centre is bound to help Andhra Pradesh and urged the people to support the leadership of Narendra Modi.
The Union Minister said, after the state was bifurcated, the Centre granted various educational institutions like IITs and IIMs. Several industrial parks were also allotted, he said.
In recent times, no leader from the BJP camp held such yatras. This made the BJP leaders in Andhra Pradesh to give a stunning welcome to Kishan Reddy who is on a Yatra.
Kishan Reddy, a BJP MP from Secunderabad constituency was promoted as the Union Minister as part of the reshuffle of Narendra Modi’s cabinet. He was made the North Eastern Minister of Tourism, Culture and Development.
The current Yatra he is holding marks the first program Kishan Reddy started after he was made the Union Minister. He received a good response in Andhra Pradesh and we have to see how his yatra in Telangana constituencies will turn out.