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The Prime Minister stressed the importance of being consistently active on social media, calling it a powerful tool of communication
The PM advised MPs to prominently communicate the message that the Union Government’s development work in these states has been undertaken without bias or discrimination. Representational pic/PTI
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday held a meeting with BJP Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha lawmakers from the southern states of Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, and the Union Territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
In the interaction, the Prime Minister underlined the renewed emphasis the BJP intends to place on the southern region, where its electoral footprint remains limited. Karnataka, one of the party’s oldest strongholds, is the only southern state where the BJP has consistently performed well. PM Modi is learnt to have told MPs that winning both the “hearts and votes” of the South is crucial, especially at a time when the party has been sweeping elections across the country.
The PM praised the work being done by the Andhra Pradesh government, led by the TDP-BJP alliance under Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu. He reportedly highlighted that Naidu’s efforts have ensured a steady flow of investments into the state.
On Telangana—long considered a key target state for the BJP—he acknowledged that the 2023 assembly elections were a missed opportunity. Despite the decline of the BRS, the BJP has not yet emerged as the main opposition. The Prime Minister is understood to have remarked that AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi enjoys greater visibility and influence in the state’s opposition space—an area where the BJP should ideally be asserting itself.
As he often does in meetings with MPs, PM Modi stressed the importance of being consistently active on social media, calling it a powerful tool of communication. Owaisi’s online presence, he noted, should serve as a benchmark for MPs to emulate.
The Prime Minister also reviewed the Centre’s development initiatives in Kerala and Tamil Nadu—both headed for elections next year. He advised MPs to prominently communicate the message that the Union Government’s development work in these states has been undertaken without bias or discrimination.
PM Modi also referenced the BJP’s breakthrough in Kerala during the 2024 elections, where Suresh Gopi secured a historic victory and now serves as a Union minister.
Union ministers, including Suresh Gopi and Dr L Murugan, were among those who met the Prime Minister in his Parliament office on Thursday. Over the past week, the PM has also held similar meetings with BJP MPs from poll-bound Assam and West Bengal, as well as from Karnataka and Maharashtra.
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