After drubbing in Telangana polls, BJP to focus on 10 Lok Sabha seats
Koride Mahesh | TNN | Updated: Jan 7, 2019, 13:22 IST
HYDERABAD: The state BJP has decided to target 10 of the 17 Lok Sabha seats. After the Assembly election rout, the party now hopes for a change of fortune in the Lok Sabha polls and will start preparing for it after Sankranthi.
Sources said, BJP national leadership will concentrate on Telangana after the two-day national executive meeting to be held in Delhi on January 11 and 12 that would review the results of the five states which went for assembly polls recently.
BJP has reportedly decided to mainly concentrate on Secunderabad (which the party won in 2014), Malkajgiri, Chevella, Hyderabad, Nizamabad, Adilabad, Karimnagar, Mahbubnagar, Nagarkurnool and Zaheerabad Lok Sabha seats.
“In about 10 seats, the party got a considerable number of votes in the 2014 LS election and also did well in the Assembly segments that come under these LS constituencies in the recent polls. The party’s organisational strength in these areas is good and this will help us get good results,” BJP city president and MLC N Ramchander Rao told TOI. Apart from these, the party wants to take advantage in towns and segments where ballots show bipolarised vote division such as Adilabad and Nizamabad.
In the assembly election, BJP candidate from Adilabad segment Payal Shanker secured over 47,000 votes and came third in the race. Similarly, in Karimnagar, BJP candidate Bandi Sanjay Kumar got 66,000 votes and took the second place after the TRS candidate. BJP candidate from Kalwakurthy, Achary Talloju lost the poll battle by a narrow margin of 3,000 votes against TRS candidate Jaipal Yadav while both in Nizamabad urban and rural segments, the party secured good number of votes.
BJP national leadership has already appointed national leaders such as Ram Madhav, Mangal Pandey, union minister Narendra Tomar and Bandaru Dattatreya to take care of four to five LS constituencies each in Telangana.
“Ram Madhav visited each LS segment allotted to him five times each, while Mangal Pandey and Narendra Tomar visited their constituencies twice in the past few months. They will resume their meetings after the national executive meeting,” a BJP state vice-president said.
Sources said, BJP national leadership will concentrate on Telangana after the two-day national executive meeting to be held in Delhi on January 11 and 12 that would review the results of the five states which went for assembly polls recently.
BJP has reportedly decided to mainly concentrate on Secunderabad (which the party won in 2014), Malkajgiri, Chevella, Hyderabad, Nizamabad, Adilabad, Karimnagar, Mahbubnagar, Nagarkurnool and Zaheerabad Lok Sabha seats.
“In about 10 seats, the party got a considerable number of votes in the 2014 LS election and also did well in the Assembly segments that come under these LS constituencies in the recent polls. The party’s organisational strength in these areas is good and this will help us get good results,” BJP city president and MLC N Ramchander Rao told TOI. Apart from these, the party wants to take advantage in towns and segments where ballots show bipolarised vote division such as Adilabad and Nizamabad.
In the assembly election, BJP candidate from Adilabad segment Payal Shanker secured over 47,000 votes and came third in the race. Similarly, in Karimnagar, BJP candidate Bandi Sanjay Kumar got 66,000 votes and took the second place after the TRS candidate. BJP candidate from Kalwakurthy, Achary Talloju lost the poll battle by a narrow margin of 3,000 votes against TRS candidate Jaipal Yadav while both in Nizamabad urban and rural segments, the party secured good number of votes.
BJP national leadership has already appointed national leaders such as Ram Madhav, Mangal Pandey, union minister Narendra Tomar and Bandaru Dattatreya to take care of four to five LS constituencies each in Telangana.
“Ram Madhav visited each LS segment allotted to him five times each, while Mangal Pandey and Narendra Tomar visited their constituencies twice in the past few months. They will resume their meetings after the national executive meeting,” a BJP state vice-president said.
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