Bengaluru, May 7 (). The BJP is hoping to win most of the 28 assembly seats in Bengaluru after Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s two-day mega roadshow.
The second day of PM Modi’s roadshow in Bengaluru is happening on Sunday.
Though the BJP is considered to have a weak base in South Karnataka, it has strong roots in Bengaluru. In the last election in IT City, the BJP had won 15 seats. With the unprecedented reach of PM Modi, the saffron party is hoping to win at least 20 seats in Bengaluru alone this time.
In the last assembly elections, Congress had won 12 seats here while JD(S) got one seat. After Operation Lotus, BJP has got Vokkaliga face and leadership in the state. PM Modi had inaugurated a 108-feet tall Nadaprabhu Kempe Gowda statue in the premises of Bengaluru International Airport in November last year and also inaugurated a new metro line in the state capital.
Apart from giving ticket to senior leader Arvind Limbavali’s wife in place of him, the BJP has not experimented with ticket distribution in the city. Housing Minister V. Somanna, representing the Govindaraja Nagar constituency, has been tasked with defeating Leader of the Opposition Siddaramaiah. He is contesting from Varuna seat in Mysore district and Chamarajanagar seat in Chamarajanagar district. In Govindrajnagar, the party has fielded former councilor Umesh Shetty as its candidate.
The BJP is seeking to regain the Jayanagar seat, which it lost to the Congress after the death of MLA BN Vijayakumar. Sowmya Reddy, daughter of powerful Congress leader Ramalinga Reddy, defeated the BJP candidate.
He asked BJP candidate and late MLA Vijayakumar’s brother B.N. Prahlad was defeated by 2,887 votes. There are a lot of Muslim voters in this constituency. The BJP this time has fielded party loyalist C.K. Ramamurthy has been fielded while Sowmya Reddy is contesting for the second time from the Congress.
Prime Minister Modi did a 29.8 kilometer road show on Saturday. The response of the people across the region has made the BJP camp jubilant. They have the hope of victory. BJP sources said PM Modi’s campaign has helped the BJP erase the bitter memories of infrastructure failure during last year’s flood situation in the IT city.
In the second mega roadshow in Bengaluru, Modi will cover a distance of 10 kms. The roadshow started from Old Airport Road and will end near the War Memorial on Lach Brigade Road.
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