View: Modi steals spotlight as NDA gathers momentum in Andhra Pradesh
Hindustan TimesOn May 8, I was in Vijayawada to witness the NDA roadshow led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi of BJP along with alliance partners N Chandrababu Naidu of Telugu Desam and Pawan Kalyan of Jan Sena on M G road. With the entire MG road turned into a party zone, the roadshow made it amply evident that in the forthcoming Lok Sabha and Assembly election polling day on May 13, the state will go NDA positive with BJP reopening its account with better numbers and higher voting percentage. Vijayawada: Prime Minister Narendra Modi with JanaSena party President and actor Pawan Kalyan and Telugu Desam Party President N Chandrababu Naidu during an election roadshow for the Lok Sabha elections, in Vijayawada. Read: Congress trying to eliminate Hindu faith, give job quotas to Muslims, says Narendra Modi Credible internal election surveys indicated that the NDA alliance should bag some 19 out of 25 Lok Sabha seats with TDP grabbing the lion’s share of 13 seats followed by BJP with four and Jan Sena Party with two and Jagan Reddy’s YSRCP confined to five seats only. As per estimates, the BJP will get five Assembly seats with higher voting percentage and hence reopen its Assembly account with the voter crystallizing in favour of TDP and NDA in the forthcoming elections.