Workers arrange BJP flags ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, at the party office in Jammu, Tuesday, April 2, 2024. (PTI Photo)
The BJP will win more than 10 of the total 17 Lok Sabha seats in Telangana thanks to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s popularity and his development agenda and corruption-free governance, said BJP Rajya Sabha member K Laxman.
It will be a landslide victory for the BJP in Telangana in the Lok Sabha elections, said Laxman, member of the BJP parliamentary board.
The BJP won four seats in Telangana in the 2019 general elections.
“People from every nook and cranny of the state are looking at Prime Minister Modi, his development agenda and welfare programs for the poor and his achievements over the last decade,” he told PTI here.
In last year’s Assembly elections, people may have voted for the local issues but they will definitely vote for Modi as their choice for Prime Minister in the Assembly elections, he said.
The Congress had won the assembly elections, defeating the BRS, which had been in power since 2014 when Telangana was formed.
When asked what are the factors that will contribute to the BJP’s success in the current Lok Sabha elections, Laxman said Modi’s charisma, his development agenda and zero tolerance towards corruption will be among the causes that will favor voters’ choice of the BJP will determine.
In Telangana, people are looking for development and that can only be done with the BJP led by Modi, he said.
“We will definitely cross double digits (in LS polls). Our seats will be more than all parties put together,” said Laxman, a former president of the BJP in Telangana.
Asked about Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy’s comments that the BJP would change the Constitution and do away with reservations, Laxman said the CM is speaking out of frustration.
Modi has repeatedly said that he would not allow anyone to change the Constitution, Laxman, national president of BJP’s OBC Morcha, noted.
“It is you (Congress) people who are working against the Constitution. You are making communal reservations, which is anti-Constitution,” he said.
The architect of the Constitution, Babasaheb Ambedkar, never wanted religion-based reservations, but the Congress is proposing religion-based reservations, which the BJP is opposing, he said.
“You (Congress) are now also taking away the rights of OBCs, SCs and STs by appeasing the Muslim community,” he said.
On the allegation that the BJP is increasingly raising communal issues during the ongoing Lok Sabha election campaign, Laxman said it is the Opposition parties who are repeatedly talking about reservations for Muslims and others.
“Modi speaks for the poor, irrespective of their caste, be it Hindu, Muslim or Christian. Modi says we work for the poor, women, youth and farmers,” he said.
The BJP, which won four seats in Telangana in the 2019 general elections, is now hoping to win a majority of constituencies and thereby increase its national power.
Elections to all 17 Lok Sabha seats in Telangana will take place on May 13.
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First print: April 28, 2024 | 9:19 am IST