BRS or BSP? Telangana Minister Errabelli Dayakar fumbles on new party name

Telangana Minister Errabelli Dayakar Rao is in the news for all the wrong reasons. The minister fumbled while pronouncing the name of his new party. Instead of BRS, he pronounced it 'BSP'

In a viral video, someone in the crowd asked him for the new party name. One of the attendees shouted BSP. The minister without realizing the fallout too chanted BSP.

"BSP is a national party now. CM has announced the party today. I have attended many programs today. I also attended the Teppa Otsavam at the Badrakali temple. Later went to Maidanam for Ravana Dahan. I came here now. After that I have to go somewhere else," he said.

Meanwhile the BJP called the launch of BRS as a wasteful national ambition of the Chief Minister. "This is not the first time a regional party nurtured national ambition. Many regional parties since 1947 have tried and failed. AIDMK, DMK, TDP, SP, BSP, RJD, JD (U), TMC and recently Aam Admi Party are few. I am wondering how, by just changing the name from TRS to BRS, a party can become a national party. A party need to get quantifiable voter support in multiple states for it to be recognized as a national party. BJP believes there's no 'Telangana Model' and it exists only in fictitious imagination of CM KCR. One can't sell a model to the nation, which doesn't exist. I strongly believe CM KCR's initiative will be a self sabotage. Change of the name from TRS to BRS will lead to losing his home turf, while he embarks on a wasteful national ambition, added K.Krishna Sagar Rao-Chief Spokesperson- BJP Telangana State.