Hyderabad: The BJP has been targeting to defeat the Telugu Desam in Andhra Pradesh and the Congress in Telangana in the next elections. In Andhra Pradesh, the BJP does not have the strength to win in any Assembly or Lok Sabha seat on its own and it has to fight alone in the next elections. There are speculations that the BJP and Jana Sena may enter into an alliance in the last minute.
A senior BJP leader said that the party leaders fear to contest in the Assembly or Lok Sabha elections. He said that in the Lok Sabha elections, each candidate has to spend about Rs 20 crore.
The BJP leader asked that when there is no chance of winning, who will spend this much money? This time there will be no Modi wave in Andhra Pradesh or Telangana. More over, many sections have distanced themselves from Modi due to several decisions taken by him in the last four years. Unless the national party provides the held over finance, the state BJP leaders in many Lok Sabha constituencies will not show interest.
According to top sources in the Assembly, wherever there are chances for Telugu Desam to win, in those seats, the BJP will help YSRC candidates indirectly. In Telangana also, where Congress has winning chances, the BJP will indirectly support the TRS candidates.
The BJP national leadership is of the view that the TRS and the YSRC will support the NDA after the 2019 elections as both the parties are against the Congress.
Where the BJP has no chance for victory, there it will see that the Congress in Telangana and Telugu Desam in AP does not win. There are speculations in political circles that the Congress and the TD may enter into an alliance in the next elections. The BJP leaders are of the opinion that if the Congress and TD do not have an alliance in the elections, after the elections, the TD may support the Congress to stop the BJP from coming to power.
