BJP mission south push via 4 RS nomination

Express News Service

NEW DELHI: In what seemed to be a meticulously chalked-out technique the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) gave one other push to its ‘Mission South’ forward of the upcoming meeting elections in some states and the subsequent 2024 Lok Sabha elections.

As a part of the mission, the Modi authorities after a month of deliberations inside its think-tank nominated the 4 eminent personalities on Wednesday to the Rajya Sabha from numerous acclaimed fields.

Sources in BJP on Thursday in personal dialog with this every day said that extra such shocking strikes are within the pipeline of the occasion as a part of the well-thought-out ‘Mission South’ protecting regional electoral points in thoughts.

“Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Kerala are the prime target of the party’s mission south in which every issue concerning the people and conducive to electoral gains are being included after the expert scrutinise,” shared a senior BJP functionary.

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For instance, athlete PT Usha, who belongs to Kerala carries a reputation and fame in mass electorates of Kerala and her nomination to the RS has given a powerful message amongst a bigger part of sport-loving younger electorates.

“In the same way, music composer Ilaiyaraaja, philanthropist Virendra Hedge and famous screenwriter-director V Vijayendra Prasad-all acclaimed in larger sections of electorates, who have not started appreciating the party’s decision to nominate them to the RS. In politics, perception matters a lot in deciding the final outcome of the electorate battles,” remarked a former BJP MP, who remains to be thought-about near the senior central management of the occasion.

He identified, “In this way, on the sideline of nominations to the Rajya Sabha, BJP has tried to give even more edge to its ‘Mission South’ and more is learnt to be in the pipeline to put the Opposition in a tatter.”

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World acclaimed athlete PT Usha is from Kerala. Ilaiyaraaja hails from Tamil Nadu and belongs to the Dalit neighborhood whereas Hedge heads the well-known shrine temple of Karnataka. Not solely this, if we glance, V Vijayendra Prasad comes from Andhra Pradesh and is extensively acclaimed amongst the film buffs for producing super-hit movies like ‘Bahubali’.

“The list from the south for the RS is a reflection of Modi’s vision of inclusivity in selecting people, who have delivered and made a mark of themselves without controversies. Certainly, their nominations will have a fruitful impact on BJP’s electoral success,” opined NKD Nambiar, a famous political analyst from South India argued.

He added additional that the BJP needs to domesticate the 5 states of the South – Karnataka, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Telangana whereby 129 Lok Sabha seats are being eyed for electoral beneficial properties.

Sources additional stated that the utmost, out of a complete of 144 Lok Sabha constituencies, lately recognized as weak for the BJP, is in these 5 states of South India.

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The current assembly of the occasion’s National govt committee was additionally an preliminary a part of this mission adopted by the PM’s go to to Andhra Pradesh. The BJP needs to make use of Karnataka because the launching pad of its politics to different states of South India due to being in energy right here.

In Karnataka, there are 28 Lok Sabha seats, out of which 26 are occupied by BJP+. In poll-bound Telangana and Tamil Nadu, the BJP is leaving no stone unturned to dislodge the ruling events elevating dynastic and different points earlier than the individuals forward of the 2023 meeting elections.

In AP, there are 25 Lok Sabha seats and the BJP within the 2029 LS elections had did not win even a single seat. However, the BJP received the 2 seats in 2014 in Andhra Pradesh. Now, working to undertaking as a substitute for Jaganmohan Reddy’s YSR Congress, the whole electoral stage is farmed right here.

In Kerala and Tamil Nadu, the meeting elections are in 2026, so the BJP has given ample time for these two states proper from bringing influential faces into the occasion to elevating people-centric points via numerous media platforms. In 2024, the occasion’s eye shall be on opening an account in Kerala for its whole of 20 Lok Sabha seats via correct electoral planning, which has been included within the mission south.