Hyderabad, Feb. 16 -- Armed with the Ram Mandir construction plank, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Telangana is all set to ramp up its 2024 Lok Sabha poll campaign in Telangana with an even more aggressive Hindutva than last year's Assembly election. After Karnataka, the party's focus in South India is on Telangana given that this is the only state where it has potential to grow faster.

The Ram Mandir was consecrated by the central government on January 22 in Uttar Pradesh, signalling the win of Hindutva groups led by the BJP which demolished the Babri Masjid that stood in it place on December 6, 1992.

Apart from issues like that of renaming cities (Hyderabad to Bhagyanagar) to polarizing campaigns by leaders like Raja Goshamahal M...