Though the exact outcome of the general elections held across the country will be known only on Thursday, the exit poll results announced by various agencies have brought a new lease of life for the Bharatiya Janata Party in Telangana.
As there are indications that the BJP will retain power at the Centre with a huge majority, party leaders are in Telangana are seeing a greater opportunity to develop the party independently as a potential alternative to the TRS in the next five years.
In fact, Telangana BJP president K Laxman said the growth of the BJP in Telangana would faster than the party in West Bengal, where it is emerging as a potential rival to the Trinamul Congress headed by Mamata Banerjee.
West Bengal was the citadel of the Communist party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) for several years, before it was conquered by the Trinamul Congress.
Now, the CPI (M) got completely faded away and has been reduced to a nominal position. As a result, the BJP is trying to emerge as a powerful alternative.
Similarly in Telangana, which was once dominated by the Congress, has now become a fortress of the Telangana Rashtra Samithi headed by K Chandrasekhar Rao.
After the latest assembly elections, the Congress party has shrunk further and is just struggling to survive.
Now, the BJP is trying to take its position and grow independently as an alternative to the TRS. If not now, the people will have to choose an alternative to the TRS and it would be the BJP, say the BJP leaders.
Laxman sid the BJP would rewrite the political history in Telangana State in the near future just as it had done in West Bengal.
Like Trinamul Congress in West Bengal, which has become autocratic and tyrannical, the Telangana, too, is witnessing a similar autocratic and dictatorial regime of the TRS, he said.
"Entire Telangana is waiting for good days to come in the State to free themselves from the TRS regime," he said.
"The Congress is going to vanish in the State and those accused the majority people with fashionable political rhetoric like Hindu terror, Hindus or Bondus will face backlash," he said.
