BJP bets on Telangana, other parties claim not yet
Deccan ChronicleHyderabad: The BJP’s determination to create a stronghold in the state is worrying the TRS, but the Congress says it is confident that the BJP will not succeed in emerging as the main Opposition party as it does not have a rural vote bank. The state Congress leadership says it has an organisational structure in every nook and corner of Telangana, wher-eas the BJP has such a structure in only 20 per cent of villages. The BJP had a 7.15 per cent vote share in the state in the December Assembly polls. The Congress, though it won only three seats, had a vote share of 29.79 per cent. The TRS retained power in the state with a vote share of 47.38 per cent in the Assembly elections and won nine seats in the LS polls with a vote share of 41.71 per cent.