vijayawada the victory in four out of five states where elections were completed this week seems to have prompted bjp leaders to set their eyes on the two telugu states the leaders are planning big in the two states ahead of the assembly elections due in 2023 in telangana and 2024 in andhra pradeshif internal talks are any indication the bjp leadership is now planning to bring national leaders and central ministers every month till the elections are held the leadership believes they have considerable strength in ap which can be further consolidated by roping in more leaders to inspire local people though its presence in ap is nominal the leaders want to increase the number of mass contact programmes to come closer to the electorateunion minister for external affairs v muraleedharan who is also the incharge of ap affairs has been holding consultations with state leaders to improve the partys base in ap bjp leaders are also in favour of projecting jana sena chief pawan kalyana their chief minister candidate for the 2024 elections pawan who is currently busy with some of his films is likely to make himself available full time for politics by the end of this yearthe bjp plans to intensify its campaign together with pawan to increase vote share in state meanwhile local bjp leaders are divided on their approach towards the ruling ysrc in the state while some leaders want to go aggressive and take over the tdps role there is another section which wants to go soft on the government while telling people how the central government is helping the state in its developmentthe recent visit of union jal shakti minister gajendra singh shekawat was one such visit though shekawat visited the polavaram project site along with chief minister ys jagan mohan reddy and appreciated the efforts of the state government he did not criticise the state government at the party workers meeting