PR hopes to get 12 LS, BJP 3

The Praja Rajyam said it would win 70 Assembly and 12 Lok Sabha seats in the first phase of polls.

The PR vice-president, Mr T. Devender Goud, on Thursday night said: “We did extremely well in the first phase.

The results will be surprising. The PR would sweep the polls in Telangana and north Andhra regions, which went for elections in the first phase.”

Mr Goud was addressing a media conference in the PR’s central office Along with the PR spokesperson, Mr P. Mitra, in Hyderabad on Thursday night.

Meanwhile, the BJP is hopeful of winning 13 Assembly and three Lok Sabha seats in the first phase of elections. The party leaders said BJP’s emergence as a Telangana icon has helped it.

The BJP spokesperson, Mr N. Rama Chandra Rao, said: “TRS sympathisers also voted for the BJP in Karimnagar and Mahbubnagar.

The overwhelming response is going to help us win good number of seats in Telangana region.”