Home Minister Amit Shah touched down at Hyderabad’s Shamsabad Airport on Thursday afternoon, just four months before the Lok Sabha election. On his social media account X, Union Minister G Kishan Reddy posted photos of the Home Minister’s arrival after they met at the airport in Shamsabad. The BJP’s Telangana poll chief, Amit Shah, will preside over an organizational meeting in Shamshabad to devise plans for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. He will meet with the core members of the Bhartiya Janata Party in Shamshabad during his visit, and at the Slokha convention, he will also meet with the BJP’s “Mandal” presidents from all over Telangana.
Shah will also grant prayers at the Bhagyalaxmi Temple in Hyderabad.
Notably, the saffron party won four of 17 seats from Telangana in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. In a significant move earlier, Shah was made the BJP’s in-charge for Odisha, Telangana and West Bengal — states where the party has been a laggard electorally — for the Lok Sabha elections next year.
In the recent state assembly elections to Telangana, the BJP doubled its vote share, bagging 8 assembly seats as compared to the 2018 Assembly elections in which the party won just one seat and hogged a mere 7 per cent of the total vote share.
Earlier, On Tuesday, Amit Shah, along with BJP national president JP Nadda, held organisational meetings with the members of the party’s core committee for West Bengal.
The Union Home Minister set his party charges in the state a target of winning 35 of the 42 parliamentary seats in West Bengal.