BJP bagged Visakhapatnam in Seemandhra, former union minister Purandeswari, who joined BJP after quitting Congress, may get the ticket. Araku, Narasa Rao Pet, Tirupati and Rajamundhary are the other Lok Sabha seats in Seemandhra given to BJP.
In Telangana, BJP will contest from Secunderabad from where the party is likely to field former Union minister Bandaru Dattatreya or Kishan Reddy. Its other Lok Sabha seats in Telangana are Medak, Karimnagar, Mahbubnagar, Zahirabad, Bhuvanagiri, Nizamabad and Warangal (SC). BJP's best performance in the state was in 1999 when in alliance with the TDP it had won seven seats in Lok Sabha.