Bellary, August 20: After Karnataka in the south, BJP is now eyeing to come to power in the neighbouring Andhra Pradesh within a decade, senior leader of the party Sushma Swaraj said here today.
Addressing a huge party rally here on the occasion of “Varamahalakshmi” festival Swaraj said, “Today, when I performed pooja, I prayed that we want to form Government in Andhra Pradesh in less than ten years.”
The Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha said when she celebrated the festival here in 2000, a year after she lost to the Congress President Sonia Gandhi in Lok Sabha polls, she prayed to Almighty to bring her party to power in Karnataka.
BJP came to power on its own strength in Karnataka in 2008.
Swaraj had been visiting Bellary every year in the last one decade during the “Varamahalakshmi” festival.
–Agencies