Hyderabad: The BJP would go it alone in Telangana for the upcoming general elections and contest in all the 17 Lok Sabha seats in the state, senior party leader Bandaru Dattatreya said here, Sunday.
Asserting that his party is making efforts to cross 400 Lok Sabha seats this time, the former Union Minister and an MP from Secunderabad claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has given a corruption-free government and his image and popularity continue to rise.
“The BJP will independently contest in all the 17 Lok Sabha seats. The Assembly election was a totally different scenario. This is parliamentary election and we are confident about success,” Dattatreya, the lone BJP MP from Telangana, told reporters here.
It must be stated here that in the December Assembly polls in Telangana, BJP managed to win only one out of 120 seats.
Dattatreya alleged that opposition leaders are involved in one scam or the other and they are ‘criticising’ Modi only to garner votes of minorities.
Be it Congress president Rahul Gandhi, West Bengal Chief Minister and TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee, TDP chief Chandrababu Naidu or Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao, no opposition leader can match the charisma of Modi, claimed Dattatreya.
“We are making efforts to win over 400 Lok Sabha seats. We are confident BJP will come to power and Modiji will again become Prime Minister,” informed Dattatreya.
PTI