Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao will be on his two-day Maharashtra visit from Monday and reportedly will be going to the temple Towns of Pandharpur and Tuljapur.
The Bharat Rashtra Samithi has been trying to make inroads into Maharashtra ahead of the state Assembly polls due next year.
According to the reports, Rao will be leaving for Solapur on Monday once he arrives at Omerga in the Osmanabad district of Maharashtra. It is said that he will be visiting the Lord Vitthal temple in Pandharpur town of Solapur and offering prayers to the deity.
A BRS functionary informed PTI that Rao will be attending a programme in Sarkoli village of Solapur which is being arranged locally. He will then as reports say will leave for Tuljapur town in Osmanabad where the visit to Tulja Bhavani Temple lies in his itinerary.
K Chandrashekar Rao plans to expand BRS
On June 15, BRS president Rao inaugurated his party's first office in Maharashtra at Nagpur as part of his ambitious plan to increase the organisation's footprint outside his home state.
He had expressed concern over farmer suicides in Maharashtra and pitched for his "Telangana model" of development in the state.
Rao said 24-hour power and water supply in Telangana had reduced farmer suicides considerably there.
In December last year, the KCR-led party changed its name from Telangana Rashtra Samithi to Bharat Rashtra Samithi to underline its intention of becoming a pan-India party.
Last month, Rao announced a month-long programme to expand the BRS party's network in over 45,000 villages in urban civic bodies in Maharashtra.
On May 22, the BRS began its drive to form party committees in the state as part of its exercise to go beyond the confines of its traditional stronghold Telangana.
KCR recently held rallies in parts of Maharashtra, mostly in Nanded, where he slammed the Bharatiya Janata Party-led government at the Centre and the one in Maharashtra led by Chief Minister Eknath Shinde for neglecting farmers and the downtrodden.
(With PTI inputs)
