It’s raining tickets for turncoats in Telangana
The HinduThe Congress, the Bharat Rashtra Samithi, and the Bharatiya Janata Party are all fielding turncoats to improve their chances in the Lok Sabha elections. Defections galore In the 2019 elections, the BRS won nine Lok Sabha seats, followed by the BJP with four, and the Congress with three. Mr. Patil was named a BJP candidate from Zaheerabad a day after joining the saffron party and Mr. Ramulu’s son, P. Bharat, has been chosen as the BJP’s Nagarkurnool candidate. Sensing the deepening crisis, party supremo K. Chandrashekar Rao announced the BRS’s first list of candidates for four Lok Sabha seats. The party has so far retained only three sitting MPs — Union Minister G. Kishan Reddy, national general secretary Bandi Sanjay Kumar, and Dharmapuri Arvind.