The Bharatiya Janata Party is assured of increasing its footprint in Southern India this time. The key southern states together with Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Puducherry and Karnataka have already voted within the first 4 phases of the Lok Sabha polls. These states have 130 seats and the saffron get together below the management of Narendra Modi has labored laborious to make inroads into these states. While Prime Minister Modi toured the southern states forward of the Ram Temple’s inauguration, the BJP chief is assured of a saffron surge within the Southern States.
Talking to PTI, PM Modi claimed that the BJP will emerge as the only largest get together within the south. He additionally mentioned that the NDA will cross 400 seats tally on June 4. Modi mentioned his opponents have created a fantasy that the BJP has no power or presence within the southern states.
“Look at the 2019 elections. The largest party even then in the south was the BJP. Again, I say this: the largest party in the south this time will be the BJP, and its allies will add more (seats) to it…We will be the single largest party in Southern India and by an even bigger margin than the last time,” claimed Modi.
At current, the BJP has 29 MPs of those 130, the vast majority of these from Karnataka. “The blessings of the individuals will take us to a record-breaking mandate. We will see extra seats from all components of the nation, significantly from the south and the east,” he mentioned.
Modi mentioned the narrative about BJP’s weak spot within the south is a part of a marketing campaign that has painted the get together variously as urban-centric, male-centric, north-centric and a ‘Baniya-Brahmin’ get together. The Prime Minister indicated that the BJP would defy these myths this time.
