New Delhi: Union Home Minister Amit Shah will visit Telangana today and address a public meeting to mark the culmination of the month-long 'Praja Sangrama Yatra' Phase-2 organised by party Telangana unit president Bandi Sanjay. Around 3 pm Shah will visit the forensic science laboratory at Ramanthapur in the capital Hyderabad.
The Home Minister will then hold a public meeting at Tukkuguda municipality on the outskirts of the city at 6.30 pm.
BJP leaders expect Amit Shah's visit to the state will boost the morale of party workers and set the stage for the upcoming elections.
Union Minister G Kishan Reddy, while inspecting the venue on Friday, expressed confidence in BJP returning to power in the assembly elections scheduled next year, reported news agency PTI.
Amit Shah will be visiting the state for the first time after Huzurabad by-election in November last year. His visit also comes at a time when Telangana Chief Minister and Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) chief K Chandrasekhar Rao has decided to play a pivotal role in national politics to defeat the BJP.
Meanwhile, TRS leader and daughter of Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao, K Kavitha has hit out at the BJP and Union Home Minister Amit Shah. Taking to her Twitter handle, Kavitha questioned Shah and the BJP government at the Centre for not releasing the grants promised to the state so far.
"Shri Amit Shah Ji, Please tell the people of Telangana when will the central government clear Rs 3000 crores of dues of Finance Comission grant, Rs 1350 crore of Backward Region grant and the pending GST Compensation of Rs 2247 crore to Telangana," Tweeted Kavitha.
She also took on the Union Home Minister on rising inflation and fuel price hike.
"Record Breaking Unemployment in the country, Maximum Communal riots under BJP and why is India Today , One of the leading nation in selling most expensive fuel and LPG," Kavitha further wrote on her Twitter handle.