BJP’s Telangana unit President Bandi Sanjay Kumar claimed on Saturday that Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao supported the Congress in the Karnataka Assembly election.
In response to the BJP’s defeat in the Assembly elections, he claimed that KCR, as the Chief Minister is popularly known, acted as a “big brother” in Karnataka.
Sanjay also claimed that with KCR’s support, efforts were being made to have Karnataka camp politics in Hyderabad. The BJP leader also predicted that the Congress and the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) would form an alliance for the upcoming Telangana Assembly elections.
Sanjay told reporters in Karimnagar that all parties in Karnataka had banded together to fight the BJP. “It was the Congress which communalised politics in Karnataka. Congress has won with the support of one section. The SDPI and the AIMIM supported Congress,” he said.
Sanjay, a Lok Sabha member from Karimnagar, also maintained that local factors are important in any state election. He claimed that the BJP’s vote share in Karnataka had not decreased. “In the previous elections, BJP had polled 36 per cent votes and this time too it secured 36 per cent votes. Congress party’s vote share has gone up from 38 per cent to 43 per cent as there was a decline in JD-S vote share,” he said.
The BJP leader denied that the Karnataka result would have an impact on the upcoming Telangana assembly elections or the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. “Will Congress come to power at the Centre by winning just one state,” he asked.
He claimed that the BJP’s vote share in Telangana had increased. He pointed out that the BJP won three of the five assembly by-elections and came close to winning Munugode. The party’s tally in the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) increased from 4 to 48.
He was confident that a double engine government would be elected in Telangana. “If the BRS has the guts, let them make promises on the lines made by Congress in Karnataka,” he said referring to promises for reservation for Muslims and ban on Bajrang Dal.
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