That’s the target for the Bharatiya Janata Party in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, according to the party’s national secretary in charge of Andhra Pradesh and Tripura, Sunil Deodhar. “So linguistic communities’ identity will be balanced in Hindutva nationalism.’’The next target is the assembly polls in some of these states, he added. Unlike the other states like Tamil Nadu and Telengana, the JD(S) didn’t have a reach all over Karnataka, only certain areas, he added. In Telengana and Tamil Nadu, the party wants to focus on consolidating voters across castes. Getting the support of the Lingayat (upper caste) and the non-dominant Other Backward Classes (OBC) was critical to the BJP’s win,” said a BJP leader from Tamil Nadu who asked not to be named.

Source: Hindustan Times May 28, 2019 01:45 UTC