The BJP will go it alone in Telangana in the upcoming general elections and contest all the 17 Lok Sabha seats in the State, senior party leader Bandaru Dattatreya said on Sunday.

Asserting that his party is making efforts to cross 400 Lok Sabha seats this time, the former Union Minister and an MP from Secunderabad claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had given a corruption-free government and his image and popularity continues to rise.

“The BJP will independently contest all the 17 Lok Sabha seats. The Assembly elections were a totally different scenario. This is parliamentary election and we are confident,” Dattatreya, the lone BJP MP from Telangana, told reporters here.

In the December Assembly polls in Telangana, BJP managed to win only one out of 120 seats.