Even as NDA won assembly elections in Bihar, campaign mode of BJP has t come to pause with top leadership focussing on next big hurdle - 2021 West Bengal elections. However, saffron party is also eyeing expanding down south - 2021 assembly polls in Tamil Nadu and Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) elections. While in Tamil Nadu, BJP is in alliance with AIADMK and its main aim is to improve its own performance by making inroads in state that is suffering a vacuum due to demise of Jayalalitha and Karunanidhi, it has shifted gears towards Telangana after increased vote share in 2019 Lok Sabha polls and victory in recently concluded bypoll for Dubbak assembly seat.  

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BJP's national general secretary Bhupender Yadav, who steered NDA victory in Bihar, has w been sent to Hyderabad to focus on  Municipal Corporation (GHMC) elections. Or leaders in team are Karnataka health minister K Sudhakar, Maharashtra BJP leader Ashish Shelar, Gujarat leader Pradeep Singh Waghela, and Karnataka MLA Satish Reddy.

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Dubbak Bypoll

BJP candidate M Raghunandan Rao won by-election to Dubbak Assembly constituency in Telangana.
He defeated his nearest rival Solipeta Sujatha of ruling TRS by 1,079 votes. bypoll, held on vember 3, was necessitated due to death of sitting TRS MLA Solipeta Ramalinga Reddy. TRS had fielded his widow Sujatha as its candidate.

In Lok Sabha elections last year, BJP increased its vote share to 19 percent from previous 7% and won four Lok Sabha seats, while TRS won nine seats and Congress won three. BJP had also won a key seat of Nizamabad as its candidate Arvind Dharmapuri defeated chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao’s (KCR) daughter K Kavitha. victory in Adilabad and Karimnagar which are TRS bastion also emboldened party's ambitions. w Dubbak victory is seen as BJP's major effort to displace Congress as political opponent in Telangana even though it faces a stiff fight from AIMIM.

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