Hyderabad: The results of the assembly election in neighbouring Karnataka state have come as a major boost to the BJP in Telangana and the emboldened leadership of the party was busy chalking out plans to focus more vigorously on the state.

As party cadres celebrated the good news from Karnataka by taking bursting firecrackers, dancing to beating drums, and distributing sweets in Hyderabad and other places in the state, Telangana state BJP president K. Lakshman said the party would now go all out to achieve its goal of coming to power in the state in the next elections.

“People of Karnataka voted for good governance and development under the leadership of Narendra Modi. They want development. Similarly the people of Telangana we’re looking towards the BJP and Modi,” K. Lakshman said.

He expressed happiness that Telugu voters in Karnataka also supported the BJP, ignoring the calls from Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao and Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu.

BJP workers celebrated the victory at the state BJP headquarters in Nampally and at the RTC X roads in Hyderabad.

Lakshman who met the national party president Amit Shah yesterday in New Delhi and submitted a report about the political situation in the state as well as the strengths and weaknesses of the organisation said that several central leaders of the party would visit the state soon.

They include the party general secretary Ram Madhav and union minister Narendra Singh Tomar and Bihar’s health minister Mandal Pandey.

During his meeting with Shah, Lakshman outlined the various programmes the BJP had taken up in Telangana.

While the immediate plans on the agenda was the celebration of the fourth anniversary of Narendra Modi government at the centre, the party also focused on taking out the message to the people about the central government’s programmes and policies through a state wide bus yatra.

“Our Yatra will highlight the welfare schemes which were being implemented in the state with the Central funds”, he said.

“We will focus now on strengthening the party from booth level to the Parliamentary constituencies,” Lakshman said.

The party cadre will now be looking forward to the visit of Amit Shah to Hyderabad in the course of next few weeks to give a further fillip to their activities.

After Karnataka, the BJP views Telangana to be more fertile than any other state as it traditionally enjoyed a significant base, especially in the northern Telangana region.

Though it had lost much of its cadre to the Telangana Rashtra Samiti during the movement for separate state, BJP leaders feel that with the party enjoying power at the centre and most of the states in the country and Prime Minister Modi appearing to be more stronger than before, the party was becoming more and more attractive to its erstwhile workers and supporters. They were also confident of attracting new blood into the party apart from the leaders from other parties, though all such efforts in the past had failed to yield results.

In 2014, when BJP had the Telugu Desam as its ally, it polled 7 per cent of popular votes and bagged five assembly seats and one Lok Sabha seat.

In the next elections, whether next year or later this year, Telangana was going to witness a multi cornered fight featuring ruling Telangana Rashtra Samiti, main opposition Congress, the BJP and the a possible front of the left parties with Telangana Jana Samiti of Kodandaram.

Though the ruling TRS was putting up a brave front insisting that the next elections will be a cakewalk for it on the basis of its good work during last four years Karnataka result will surely give it a rude jolt. So far the TRS was also ruling out any possibility of alliances, but a new situation may force the party leadership to rethink its options, a senior TRS leader opined.

On the other hand Karnataka result was being seen as a dampener for Telangana Congress which was trying its best to come out of the rut it fell into in 2014.