Hyderabad: The leader of the BRS party, K Chandrashekar Rao, is looking to adopt a strategy similar to the DMK to strengthen his party. To understand how the DMK maintains loyalty across generations, he has sent a team to study their organizational structure.
After facing setbacks in recent Assembly and Lok Sabha elections, KCR is now concentrating on building a robust party structure. Critics have often said that he neglected the party’s organizational needs while in power over the past decade. Instead of having committees, most of the power was concentrated with local MLAs in each constituency. Though there were district presidents, the real authority rested with the local MLAs, and in some cases, these MLAs also served as district presidents. Now, with the party losing power and many MLAs defeated, there is a leadership gap at the district level, according to a senior party leader.
To address this, KCR plans to establish a clear party structure. He has asked senior leaders to visit Tamil Nadu, as the party intends to set up State and district committees and appoint general secretaries and secretaries. The aim is also to create affiliated units like trade unions and community wings to strengthen the party and prevent members from leaving, explained the leader.
Previously, the BRS had tried to learn from Dravidian parties like the DMK and AIADMK, which have managed to overshadow national parties in Tamil Nadu. Recently, party leaders such as former MLA B Suman, former corporation chairman Anjaneya Goud, and Ravindar Reddy visited Chennai to gather insights.
Suman mentioned that during their visit to the DMK office, ‘Anna Arivalayam’, in Chennai on Monday, they spoke with DMK leaders, including the organization secretary, former MP RS Bharati, and former MLA Shekhar. They discussed the DMK’s organizational structure and its activities.
A senior BRS leader noted that when some DMK leaders visited Hyderabad seeking support on the NEET issue, they mentioned being the fourth generation in their party. The BRS leadership is keen to learn how the DMK has managed to keep activists loyal to the party for so many generations.
