Modi to campaign in Telangana today

Campaigning for next month’s elections to all 17 Lok Sabha seats in Telangana will gather further momentum with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Congress President Rahul Gandhi addressing election rallies in the state on Monday.

 

Modi will address a public meeting of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) at the L.B. Stadium in Hyderabad on Monday evening.

This will be Modi’s second visit to Telangana in four days. He launched the party’s campaign by addressing a rally in Mahabubnagar on March 29.

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BJP is making elaborate arrangements for the meeting in Hyderabad as it will supplement the party’s campaign for four Lok Sabha constituencies. It will be mobilising crowd from Hyderabad, Secunderabad, Malkajgiri and Chevella Lok Sabha constituencies.

Secunderabad was the only seat that the BJP won in the 2014 elections. This time the party has denied a ticket to outgoing MP and former Union minister Bandaru Dattatreya. The party has fielded G. Kishan Reddy, a former President of the party’s state unit.