After the success of its first public meeting in Khammam recently, the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) is all set to hold its second meeting in Nanded in Maharashtra, the first meeting of the party outside Telangana on February 5, BRS sources said on Monday.

The party led by Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao (KCR) was formally known as the Telangana Rashtra Samithi.

Telangana Minister for Endowments Indrakaran Reddy and some senior leaders of the party recently visited the neighbouring state to oversee the arrangements including crowd mobilisation plans.

"This is the first meeting of BRS outside Telangana. KCR will address the gathering. Some of the important leaders of the Nanded region are expected to join the party," party sources told PTI.

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Rao is likely to visit a famous gurudwara in Nanded and offer prayers before the meeting, they further said. Nanded was chosen as the district has a sizeable population of Telugu-speaking people due to its proximity to Telangana.

KCR had earlier told media persons that several villages in the neighbouring state want to merge with Telangana attracted by the welfare and developmental schemes being implemented by his government.

Asserting that the BRS’ slogan in the run-up to 2024 general elections would be "Ab ki baar kisan sarkar," KCR recently said Maharashtra continues to witness the highest number of farmers’ suicides despite being one of the richest states.

According to political analysts, the focus of Rao’s speech would be around farmers’ issues in the Nanded meeting.

BRS will also be holding a public meeting at the Parade Ground in Secunderabad which will be attended by Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin, his Jharkhand counterpart Hemant Soren, Bihar Deputy CM Tejashwi Yadav, JD(U) National President Lalan Singh as representative of Bihar CM Nitish Kumar and Dr B R Ambedkar’s grandson Prakash Ambedkar, among other dignitaries, Telangana Roads and Buildings Minister Vemula Prashant Reddy had said in a release last week.

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Before the public meeting, the leaders will also attend the inaugural ceremony of the new secretariat complex of poll-bound Telangana in Hyderabad on that day.

The building named after B R Ambedkar will be inaugurated by KCR between 11:30 am and 12:30 pm on February 17, an auspicious time suggested by Vedic pundits, Reddy said.

(Edited by : Ayushi Agarwal)