Though the defeat in assembly elections shelved BRS ambitions of emerging as a pan-national party by contesting in Lok Sabha elections from various states, the leadership seems to not give up their national ambitions.
For the last 10 years, party founder and chief KCR predicted before every election of a hung parliament, in which he was hopeful of playing a crucial role in formation of the government at the center, in the case no party or combination fails to secure absolute majority.
However, due to his misfortune BJP, under the leadership of Narendra Modi has been securing absolute majority, creating history of providing a stable government. After the 1984 election, when Rajiv Gandhi could secure more than 400 seats, only in 2014 Modi got more than 300 votes for BJP.
For the last more than a year, KCR has been planning expansion of the BRS to other states and contesting atleast in over 200 Lok Sabha seats. But after falling out in Assembly polls, now confined to Telangana only. But, his son and party working president KT Rama Rao expressed hope that his party will play a vital role in the national politics after Lok Sabha polls.
According to him none of the national alliance parties secured a majority in the ensuing Lok Sabha elections. He said neither the NDA alliance nor the INDIA alliance are poised to get complete majority and by winning a significant number of MP seats in Telangana, the BRS will become a decisive force at the Centre.
“There will be a hung Parliament. Neither the NDA nor the INDIA alliance will achieve a clear-cut majority. If we win at least 10-12 number of seats, we will play a vital role in national politics,” he said, while addressing the party cadre meeting of Bhongir parliamentary constituency at Ibrahimpatnam on Friday.
At a time most poll surveys predicting that BRS likely to be pushed to third place in the state with BJP to be pushed to second place by winning more Lok Sabha seats, than BRS, his observations seems to be to keep up morale of his party cadre. According to him, inflation that causes chaos in the lives of the people of the country is likely to have an adverse impact on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s performance among voters.
