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Ground zero: Brick by brick, BJP builds on early gains in Telangana

A structure is being laid to fortify the BJP before a slew of electoral challenges ahead of the 2023 state polls

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In building itself up as an alternative, the BJP resolutely focussed on projecting Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao and his clan as its principal adversary

Radhika Ramaseshan
Like in West Bengal where the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) buckled down to tuning up the party’s organisation and workforce for the 2021 election after a credible showing in the Lok Sabha polls, the party in Telangana has not wasted a moment to build on the gains registered first in the parliamentary election, and then the Dubbak Assembly by-election, followed by the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) polls. Brick by brick, row upon row and course upon course, a structure is being laid to fortify the BJP before a slew of electoral challenges ahead of the 2023 state polls.
 
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