New Delhi, April 12: Vowing to put up more that just a token fight, the BJP today claimed it would have an “impressive presence” in the new Tamil Nadu and Kerala Assemblies and emerge as an “effective” opposition.
The party also derided the Congress campaign in the southern states, saying the remarks of its leaders showed that it was run without any application of mind.
“In the three southern states of Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Pudducherry, we did not have a single MLA. So people thought this time also we would put up a token fight,” senior BJP leader Sushma Swaraj, who is election in-charge of BJP in the three states, said on her return to the capital today after campaigning.
“But I had said on the first day of campaigning itself that it would not be a token fight. This message has percolated down to the party cadre,” she said.
-Agencies