New Delhi:

Telangana Chief Minister Revanth Reddy has predicted the Bharatiya Janata Get together will wrestle for traction amongst South Indian voters, and win fewer than 15 of the area’s 130 Lok Sabha seats.

Within the run-up to the 2024 normal election, the BJP has gone all-out to broaden its presence within the southern states, with a specific concentrate on Kerala and Tamil Nadu. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has revamped a dozen visits to these states over the previous few weeks in a bid to drum up help.

That help, Revanth Reddy informed NDTV, is unlikely to look.

Mr Reddy – who led his occasion to a press release win over the BJP and the Bharat Rashtra Samithi in final 12 months’s Meeting election – informed NDTV he expects the INDIA bloc to select up between 115 and 120 of the 130 seats – which might be an enormous enhance in its bid to defeat the Prime Minister’s occasion.

“Throughout the south there are 130 seats… BJP goes to get hardly 12-15. The remainder will go together with INDIA,” Mr Reddy informed NDTV whereas campaigning for the Congress’ Adoor Prakash in Kerala’s Attingal.

Mr Prakash is the sitting MP; he gained the seat from A Sampath of the Communist Get together of India (Marxist), who held it after the 2009 and 2014 elections. Attingal, like most different seats within the state, has flipped between the Congress and the CPIM, with the BJP normally a distant third.

In truth, Mr Modi’s occasion has by no means gained a Lok Sabha seat within the state, and gained only one Meeting seat previously two state polls regardless of contesting almost 180 segments in that point.

Mr Reddy believes INDIA will win all 20 Lok Sabha seats in Kerala. “… This time I believe BJP will not even get deposits again from the seats it’s contesting,” the Telangana Chief Minister declared.

Within the 2019 election the Congress and its allies (then underneath the United Progressive Alliance umbrella) utterly swept the state. The BJP may solely level to a barely elevated vote-share as a constructive.

Nonetheless, this time Kerala will see bloc’s two largest members – the ruling CPIM and Congress – did not agree a seat-share deal and can, due to this fact, contest towards one another and the BJP.

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Over in Telangana, Mr Reddy believes INDIA will rating 14 of the state’s 17 seats.

The Congress final 12 months thumped former Chief Minister Okay Chandrashekar Rao’s BRS and the BJP, profitable 64 of the state’s 119 seats. Allies CPIM picked up one as effectively. The BRS acquired simply 39 seats – down from 88 final election – and the BJP a mere eight from 111 contested.

The BJP has declared a ‘Mission South’ because it tries to attain its goal of 400 seats this election.

The occasion wants a powerful exhibiting from the southern states, which additionally embrace Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh, in addition to the Union Territory of Puducherry. Within the final election the occasion was routed in Puducherry, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, and Kerala. It gained solely 4 in Telangana.

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The one huge rating was Karnataka, the place it acquired 25 of the 28 seats

A considerably higher exhibiting is important for the BJP to attain even its private goal of 370.

Mr Reddy is assured this won’t occur.

On his rival’s ‘abki baar, 400 paar‘ slogan, he stated, “It is rather related campaigning to what KCR did (within the 2023 election). He claimed he would get 100 seats however acquired 39. That is similar to what the BJP is doing now… attempting to confuse individuals, however the voters will educate the BJP a lesson,” he informed NDTV.

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