BJP rallies to help open doors for 2019 Lok Sabha elections

Party general secretary incharge of the state Murlidhar Rao, who has been camping in the state for a month now, would have addressed about 20 to 25 rallies before campaigning ends.
Home minister Rajanth Singh's presence has been booked for at least five public meetings and urban development minister M Venkaiah Naidu is likely to address five rallies.
Environment minister Prakash Javadekar and power minister Piyush Goyal will address eight to 10 rallies between the two of them.
While HRD minister Smriti Irani will be addressing five meetings, the schedules of transport minister Nitin Gadkari, railway minister Suresh Prabhu and minister of state for external affairs V K Singh are still being worked out.
BJP sources say the rallies are expected to help open doors for some gains in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls with numbers in strongholds Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan almost saturated.
The party is banking on voters looking for an option of linking themselves to a national party, other than Congress, in a state where the pie is usually shared between regional players DMK and AIADMK.
Apart from corruption, which BJP has made the campaign's focal point, its leaders are also flagging the poor condition of infrastructure in Chennai in the context of the the recent floods and the issue of closing down TASMAC, a government body that sells licenced local liquor mainly catering to the poor.