 "Union Minister Rajnath Singh in interview with Network18 Group Editor-in-Chief Rahul Joshi.")
“Fully confident that the BJP will win over 370 seats in Lok Sabha poll 2024 and the NDA will undoubtedly cross 400-mark,” said Union Minister Rajnath Singh on Friday.
In an exclusive interview with Network18 Group Editor-in-Chief Rahul Joshi, Singh said: “People trust the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government deeply for he has developed that credibility” and therefore, the party is confident of winning for the third consecutive time.
How will BJP’s performance in Southern India be?
In the interview, Singh was confident that the BJP will win the majority of the 130 seats that the five southern states along with the Union Territory of Puducherry account for in the Lok Sabha.
The minister went on to say that the BJP will win all 28 Lok Sabha seats in Karnataka in the upcoming general election and will also see an impressive victory in Tamil Nadu and Kerala.
Winning a large number of Lok Sabha seats in the southern seats is crucial to the BJP’s target of getting 370 seats in the upcoming parliamentary polls.
Impact Shorts
More Shorts“The BJP will win all 28 seats in Karnataka,” Singh said, adding that the party’s loss in the 2023 Assembly election will have no bearing on the Lok Sabha election results.
“It’s not about Assembly elections or Lok Sabha elections. Last time too, Congress had won seats in Assembly elections but it was the BJP that won the Lok Sabha constituencies," the minister added.
The minister also dismissed reports of a rift in the Karnataka BJP and said: “There is no intra-party fight anywhere. This time, we have an alliance with the JDS too. Our position has strengthened in Karnataka.”
Optimistic about Tamil Nadu & Kerala
Talking about the BJP’s prospects in Tamil Nadu and Kerala, Singh said: “Not only will we open the account, but we will also get a good seat count in Tamil Nadu. I won’t comment on the number of seats, but it will be a good tally."
“We will open an account in Kerala too. This time, there will be no state where the BJP doesn’t open its account. We will do well in all states,” the Union minister said.
Tamil Nadu has 39 seats, Karnataka has 28, Andhra Pradesh has 25 seats, Kerala has 20 and Telangana has 17 seats in the Lok Sabha.
In total, the five southern states along with Puducherry, which has one Lok Sabha constituency, account for 130 of the total 543 Lok Sabha seats.