Hyderabad, October 06: The BJP is seeking to regain its lost glory in the Telangana region of Andhra Pradesh by vigorously taking up the cause of a separate state as well as issues relating to people in the region.
Telangana was once considered a stronghold of BJP with a sizeable number of its senior leaders like Ch Vidyasagar Rao and Bandaru Dattatreya making a mark even at the national level and working as union ministers in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government.
The national party’s influence, however, waned gradually after it aligned with the Telugu Desam Party in the late 1990s. Luck did not favour BJP even after it snapped ties with TDP and raised the Telangana slogan again after 2004.
In the 2004 and 2009 elections, the BJP had to be content with just two seats each in the state Assembly while drawing a blank in Lok Sabha.
–PTI