New Delhi:

Telangana Chief Minister Revanth Reddy has predicted the Bharatiya Janata Celebration will battle 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 common election, the BJP has gone all-out to increase its presence within the southern states, with a selected concentrate on Kerala and Tamil Nadu. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has remodeled a dozen visits to these states over the previous few weeks in a bid to drum up help.

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

Mr Reddy – who led his occasion to an announcement win over the BJP and the Bharat Rashtra Samithi in final yr’s Meeting election – instructed NDTV he expects the INDIA bloc to select up between 115 and 120 of the 130 seats – which might be a giant 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 along with INDIA,” Mr Reddy instructed NDTV whereas campaigning for the Congress’ Adoor Prakash in Kerala’s Attingal.

Mr Prakash is the sitting MP; he received the seat from A Sampath of the Communist Celebration 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 often a distant third.

In reality, Mr Modi’s occasion has by no means received a Lok Sabha seat within the state, and received only one Meeting seat up to now two state polls regardless of contesting practically 180 segments in that point.

Mr Reddy believes INDIA will win all 20 Lok Sabha seats in Kerala. “… This time I feel 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 below the United Progressive Alliance umbrella) utterly swept the state. The BJP might solely level to a barely elevated vote-share as a optimistic.

Nevertheless, this time Kerala will see bloc’s two greatest members – the ruling CPIM and Congress – did not agree a seat-share deal and can, subsequently, contest in opposition to 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 yr thumped former Chief Minister Okay Chandrashekar Rao’s BRS and the BJP, successful 64 of the state’s 119 seats. Allies CPIM picked up one as nicely. The BRS received 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 realize its goal of 400 seats this election.

The occasion wants a robust displaying from the southern states, which additionally embody 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 received solely 4 in Telangana.

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

A considerably higher displaying is critical for the BJP to realize even its private goal of 370.

Mr Reddy is assured this is not going to occur.

On his rival’s ‘abki baar, 400 paar‘ slogan, he stated, “It is extremely comparable campaigning to what KCR did (within the 2023 election). He claimed he would get 100 seats however received 39. That is similar to what the BJP is doing now… making an attempt to confuse folks, however the voters will train the BJP a lesson,” he instructed NDTV.

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