Telangana Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president and Union Minister for Tourism, Culture and Development of Northeast Region G. Kishan Reddy faces twin challenges this Lok Sabha election. While on one hand he has to retain his own constituency of Secunderabad, on the other hand he has to marshal his cadre to exceed the party’s 2019 record by winning more than four Lok Sabha constituencies. In an exclusive interview with The Hindu, he talks about the party’s prospects with just a few weeks to go for the elections.
There is a positive and favourable disposition towards Prime Minister Modi and the Bharatiya Janata Party. There is no Congress Party wave now. During the Assembly elections itself, many voters told us frankly that they would support us in the Lok Sabha polls during our door-to-door campaign. This is not a new development. It was apparent in 2018 too when we won just one MLA seat, lost deposits in Assembly segments but won four MPs in the 2019 Parliament elections.
