BRS chief and former Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao dubbed the BJP’s “Ab ki baar, 400 paar” as trash and asserted that the party was unlikely to win more than 220 seats in the Lok Sabha this time. He said while the BJP would get one or none in Telangana, while in the entire South India, the saffron party might win around 10 out of 130 seats.
Hours before the high-octane Lok Sabha poll campaign ended on Saturday, KCR expressed confidence that the BRS would win 12 to 14 seats in Telangana. Stating that regional parties would rule the country after the Lok Sabha polls, he hinted at the BRS playing a key role in national politics.
He attributed this realisation as the reason for Prime Minister Narendra Modi trying to invoke Muslims, reservations and other communal statements out of frustration during his poll rallies.
“The BJP graph is dipping in North India as well. The Congress is also in a bad shape. The Lok Sabha results will shock everyone as regional parties will emerge as major political forces to form the government,” he added.
After the BRS, he predicted that the BJP would be in a distant second position in Telangana, while the Congress would be relegated to third position in nine of 17 Lok Sabha constituencies in the State.
The BRS supremo ruled out any doubts with regards to his role in national politics and affirmed that all efforts to create an alternative political force at the national level were very much alive. After the Lok Sabha elections, KCR said that he would resume his efforts to align like-minded regional political parties with whom he was already in touch.
