Senior leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) Andhra Pradesh unit on March 2 held in-depth discussions on the knotty issue of whether or not to tie up with the Telugu Desam Party (TDP)-Jana Sena Party (JSP) combine for the forthcoming elections.
While the party continues to weigh pros and cons of an electoral alliance, it is also quietly going about the task of zeroing in on candidates to contest all 175 Assembly and 26 Lok Sabha seats in the State.
“In the absence of any clarity on the alliance, candidates are being looked at to contest all the Lok Sabha and Assembly seats. We don’t want to be caught off guard in the event of being told to chart our own course. However, a section of the media is giving the wrong impression that the party has already decided against tying up with the TDP and JSP,” AP-BJP chief spokesperson Lanka DInakar told The Hindu.
