Hyderabad, Oct. 24 -- Senior BJP leader and Telangana affairs in-charge Sunil Bansal on Saturday issued a stern warning to the party's state leadership, directing inactive office-bearers to either deliver on their assigned responsibilities or step down from their posts to make way for working cadres.

Addressing an extended review-cum-election committee meeting held at the party's state headquarters here, Bansal pulled up functionaries for confining their political presence to the state capital instead of touring districts and engaging with grassroots workers.

Taking a critical view of leadership inertia, Bansal questioned the justification of leaders clinging to party posts without active field engagement.

He cautioned that office-bearer...