bjp: BJP looks at boosting prospects in south India

After profitable the elections within the Hindi heartland and Northeast, the BJP is coaching its eyes on South India as leaders really feel it’s the finest time for the celebration to mark its presence there.

Conferences have been deliberate, motion factors are being carried out to extend the BJP’s assist base in Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and, to some extent, in Kerala. The celebration is already in energy in Karnataka.

Earlier than completion of 100 years of the RSS in 2025, the celebration has set a goal of bettering its energy in all these states, together with Kerala, the place efforts have not yielded any success. In truth, the southern sojourn was the sport plan of the then celebration president, Amit Shah, who labored on it throughout his tenure ensuing within the celebration making some inroads in states like Telangana throughout the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.

“In Telangana, we have now received two by-elections regardless of the ruling TRS spending large quantities of cash. We’re at current quantity three in Tamil Nadu and issues are wanting good in Andhra too,” BJP normal secretary CT Ravi instructed ET. Ravi can also be the celebration in-charge for Tamil Nadu. Within the 2021 meeting elections, BJP received 4 seats out of 20 it contested in alliance with the AIADMK. Final month’s city native our bodies election in Tamil Nadu elevated BJP’s confidence and the celebration now claims to be within the quantity three place within the state after the DMK and AIADMK. BJP received 308 seats out of 12,838 seats within the state within the city physique polls. BJP had fielded candidates in 5,400 seats. Its vote share got here to five.4% within the polls.

In Andhra Pradesh, BJP has divided the state into 4 zones and conferences can be organised in every zone from April 27 to April 30.