BJP to target 315 seats in Lok Sabha elections
New Delhi, Oct 14: Terming the proposed grand alliance of opposition parties against BJP a "non-starter," BJP general secretary V Ram Madhav Saturday said the party is gearing up for the 2019 Lok Sabha polls with a target of winning 315 seats.
The opposition parties are proposing 'Mahagathbandhan' (grand alliance) as there was no leader who can match the popularity of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, he said.
"No
'jhenda'
(flag)
and
no
agenda
(for
'Mahagathbandhan').
It's
a
non-starter.
With
such
a
sinking
'gathbandhan',
nobody
can
stop
the
victory
march
of
BJP.
BJP
is
gearing
up
for
parliament
elections
with
the
target
of
315
seats
in
2019,"
he
said.
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Madhav
claimed
there
was
no
leader
in
the
country
who
can
match
Modi's
popularity.
"That's
why,
all
are
doing
'Mahagathbandhan'
today.
There
is
no
leader
in
the
country
who
can
match
the
popularity
of
Modi
ji.
With that fear, your Chandrasekhar Rao (Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) chief and caretaker Chief Minister) has brought elections by six-eight months early," Madhav said.
Madhav was addressing a meeting of BJP workers from Secunderabad assembly constituency here which was organised in connection with the December 7 Assembly polls in the state.
BJP
is
a
natural
party
for
Telangana
and
only
it
can
be
the
alternative
to
ruling
TRS,
he
claimed.
Hitting
out
at
Congress
chief
Rahul
Gandhi
and
describing
the
party
as
a
"sinking
ship",
he
said
"an
alliance
is
being
formed
for
the
assembly
polls
in
the
company
of
such
a
party."
The
Congress
leader
was
"working
hard
on
how
to
put
Modi
in
power
in
2019.
He
is
very
busy..,"
Madhav
said.
Attacking TDP, which is also a partner in the Congress-led alliance of opposition parties in Telangana, he described the party as 'Telugu Droham (betrayal) Party'. TDP was founded by late N T Rama Rao on an anti-Congress plank and the party is joining Congress-led alliance for political existence in Telangana, he claimed.
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BJP activists should aim to bring the party to power in Telangana and not hope to increase its strength by just a few seats in the assembly elections, Madhav said.
TRS had only got 62 seats (out of 119) in a wave in 2014 in when the party ran a campaign claiming credit for realising separate Telangana, the BJP leader said. "Does TRS, which could not run government for full five years, have the eligibility (to be in power) in the state," he asked.
BJP MP from Secunderabad Bandaru Dattatreya, state BJP president K Laxman and others were present on the occasion.