The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) counts Telangana as a sunrise state, suffused with the growth potential that West Bengal and Odisha hold. The difference is while the BJP had to construct its political architecture from scratch in the eastern states, history and legacy were on its side in Telangana, although the political bequest did not necessarily yield votes.
General Secretary and Telangana leader P Muralidhar Rao stressed this point and said: “This is not a state where we need revival. In the Lok Sabha elections held after the Ayodhya movement and at the crest of Atalji’s (Atal Bihari Vajpayee) popularity, we