NEW DELHI: PM Narendra Modi's discuss with to the southern states of Tamil Nadu and Kerala on Sunday to deal with public gatherings and release new initiatives may be able to be the BJP's selection route to sitting at the treasury benches in the 17th Lok Sabha after May 26 - and there are the explanation why the birthday party is feeling bullish relatively than bluish over its electoral potentialities down south.
It was said in Indian parliamentary politics that the birthday party which captures a majority of the 80 Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh (UP) will get to rule at the Centre - the southern states would possibly simply provide that further heft for the BJP which has faced a drubbing in the contemporary assembly polls in the Hindi heartland states of Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan, at the side of losing Chhattisgarh.
People attend the general public assembly in Madurai on Sunday
What's on be offering: In total, the five states and one UT (Puducherry) in South India - Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Telangana - be offering 120 seats and except for for Karnataka, where the BJP has a state executive in energy and 17 Lok Sabha seats out of 27, it's a non-entity or thereabouts in all other states. It has simply two seats - in alliance - in Tamil Nadu, zero in Kerala, where it used to be his second discuss with in not up to 2 weeks and simply 1 seat in Telangana, a leftover after its alliance partner TDP walked out of the NDA and 2 seats in Andhra Pradesh.
Options open: PM Modi, even whilst addressing a rally in Madurai where he laid the root stone for an AIIMS, avoided criticising any of the regional parties - booking his ire just for the Congress and the Communists with indications that the saffron birthday party is thinking about an alliance with the ruling AIADMK, which won 37 of the 39 Lok Sabha seats in 2014. In reality, earlier this year, Modi himself did not rule out the opportunity of allying with the AIADMK. Then after all there's the X-factor, in the form of Rajnikanth, the Tamil celebrity whose admiration of Modi isn't any secret.
The Hindutva component: The Supreme Court choice on Sabarimala - permitting women in the 10-50 age crew access to the Lord Ayyappa Temple - has come as a blessing for the BJP and its core constituency as the verdict consolidated the staunch Hindus against the Kerala executive of the communists who insisted of imposing the SC order, angering a majority of the Hindus. In reality, at his rally in Thrissur, Kerala, Modi pounced upon the opportunity to accuse the state executive of being insensitive to the people's cultural beliefs - a touch at the Sabarimala controversy. He also accused the UDF executive of framing former ISRO scientist Nambi Narayanan for spying - the scientist, who used to be acquitted of all fees through the SC, used to be conferred the Padma Bhushan this year.
It was said in Indian parliamentary politics that the birthday party which captures a majority of the 80 Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh (UP) will get to rule at the Centre - the southern states would possibly simply provide that further heft for the BJP which has faced a drubbing in the contemporary assembly polls in the Hindi heartland states of Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan, at the side of losing Chhattisgarh.
People attend the general public assembly in Madurai on Sunday
What's on be offering: In total, the five states and one UT (Puducherry) in South India - Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Telangana - be offering 120 seats and except for for Karnataka, where the BJP has a state executive in energy and 17 Lok Sabha seats out of 27, it's a non-entity or thereabouts in all other states. It has simply two seats - in alliance - in Tamil Nadu, zero in Kerala, where it used to be his second discuss with in not up to 2 weeks and simply 1 seat in Telangana, a leftover after its alliance partner TDP walked out of the NDA and 2 seats in Andhra Pradesh.
Options open: PM Modi, even whilst addressing a rally in Madurai where he laid the root stone for an AIIMS, avoided criticising any of the regional parties - booking his ire just for the Congress and the Communists with indications that the saffron birthday party is thinking about an alliance with the ruling AIADMK, which won 37 of the 39 Lok Sabha seats in 2014. In reality, earlier this year, Modi himself did not rule out the opportunity of allying with the AIADMK. Then after all there's the X-factor, in the form of Rajnikanth, the Tamil celebrity whose admiration of Modi isn't any secret.
The Hindutva component: The Supreme Court choice on Sabarimala - permitting women in the 10-50 age crew access to the Lord Ayyappa Temple - has come as a blessing for the BJP and its core constituency as the verdict consolidated the staunch Hindus against the Kerala executive of the communists who insisted of imposing the SC order, angering a majority of the Hindus. In reality, at his rally in Thrissur, Kerala, Modi pounced upon the opportunity to accuse the state executive of being insensitive to the people's cultural beliefs - a touch at the Sabarimala controversy. He also accused the UDF executive of framing former ISRO scientist Nambi Narayanan for spying - the scientist, who used to be acquitted of all fees through the SC, used to be conferred the Padma Bhushan this year.
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