Amit Shah's Telangana tour postponed

Hyderabad, Sept 26: The National BJP president Amit Shah has postponed his proposed tour to Telangana state in October till the completion of the Gujarat Assembly elections next year.

BJP general secretaries will take up whirlwind tours of the starting next month to prepare the party to emerge as an alternative to the TRS.

Telangana State BJP president Dr. K. Laxman, who attended the party's two-day national executive meet, said Mr. Shah had informed him that he could not spare time till the Gujarat elections which may take place in January.

"After the Gujarat polls, our party president will be touring Telangana state, In the meantime, party general secretaries Ram Lal (organization) and Ram Madhav will tour the state and gear up the party workers," Dr Laxman said.

He said Mr. Shah had expressed happiness over his (Dr Laxman's) report on how the party was scripting strategies and campaigning to counter the TRS, including the formation of 23,000 polling booth-level committees and enrolling 30 lakh members into the party.