AURANGABAD: Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao will visit Pandharpur and Tuljapur temple towns during his two-day visit to Maharashtra starting from Monday, a functionary of the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) said.
The BRS has been trying to make inroads into Maharashtra ahead of the state Assembly polls due next year. Rao, popularly known as ‘KCR’, will arrive at Omerga in Osmanabad district on Monday and will then leave for Solapur. On Tuesday, he will visit the Lord Vitthal temple in Pandharpur town of Solapur and offer prayers to the deity, the BRS functionary said.
The CM will also attend a locally arranged programme in Sarkoli village of Solapur.
Rao will later depart for Tuljapur in Osmanabad, where he will visit the famous Tulja Bhavani temple on Tuesday afternoon, he said. 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.”