BRS eyes rural body polls for Maharashtra foray Â
1 year, 11 months ago

BRS eyes rural body polls for Maharashtra foray Â

Deccan Chronicle  

ADILABAD: The Bharat Rashtra Samithi is preparing to contest local body elections in neighbouring Maharashtra, which will mark its first election outside its home state of Telangana. Sources said that the party's high command is of the view that contesting local body polls will create a presence as a viable banner for candidates to contest MLA polls. Godam Nagesh told Deccan Chronicle that they were getting a good response from locals and many youths had shown interest to contest the local body elections, scheduled for February, on BRS tickets. Godam Nagesh said that the party is prioritising areas from Kinwat in the Nanded district to Aheri in the Gadchiroli district, along the Telangana borders, which comprise 12-15 Assembly constituencies.

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Maharashtra polls: Friendly face-offs between allies in 29 out of 288 assembly seats
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Maharashtra polls: Friendly face-offs between allies in 29 out of 288 assembly seats

New Indian Express  

MUMBAI: The November 20 Maharashtra election will witness friendly contests among the Mahayuti and Maha Vikas Aghadi allies in 29 out of 288 assembly seats. The ruling Mahayuti's partners, the BJP, Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena and Ajit Pawar's Nationalist Congress, will contest alongside each other in eight seats: Mankhurd Shivajinagar, Ashti, Sindhkhed Raja, Katol, Morshi, Dindori, Shrirampur and Purandar. The …

Telangana: Political Parties Gear Up for Local Body Elections, Ramp Up Campaigns
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Telangana: Political Parties Gear Up for Local Body Elections, Ramp Up Campaigns

Deccan Chronicle  

ADILABAD: Leaders of various political parties planning to contest in local body elections in the district have started visiting villages and towns and attending different functions. Defeated MLA candidates and those who were refused tickets to contest in the Assembly and Lok Sabha elections are planning to contest in the local body elections for ZPTCs. Leaders zero in on those …

BJP eyes BRS leaders to win local body polls
5 months ago

BJP eyes BRS leaders to win local body polls

Deccan Chronicle  

Adilabad: The BJP will join the BRS at mandal and village levels and campaign for the ensuing local body elections in the erstwhile Adilabad district. The BJP has four MLAs and an MP in the district and it wants to strengthen the party at the grassroots level by luring leaders of opponent parties into its fold to win local elections. …

Lok Sabha elections | BRS looks to shake off Assembly defeat, assert that it is still a force to be reckoned with
8 months ago

Lok Sabha elections | BRS looks to shake off Assembly defeat, assert that it is still a force to be reckoned with

The Hindu  

After being in power for a decade in Telangana, the Bharat Rashtra Samithi is facing its first major electoral and existential challenge that is likely to have an indefinite impact on its future, though it has survived threats posed at it in the 2006 byelections and 2009 elections. As the party that spearheaded the Telangana Statehood movement for 14 years, …

BRS To Give B Forms to Its Candidates on April 18
8 months, 1 week ago

BRS To Give B Forms to Its Candidates on April 18

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: The BRS has decided to move swiftly on its plans for the Lok Sabha polls, announcing that all its candidates will be handed over their ‘B’ Forms, which authorizes them to contest the elections on behalf of the party, on Thursday. The day will see an extended meeting of BRS president K. Chandrashekar Rao, and senior party leaders with …

All Eyes on MLC Bypoll Today, Cong, BRS to Shift 'Voters' from Camps
8 months, 3 weeks ago

All Eyes on MLC Bypoll Today, Cong, BRS to Shift 'Voters' from Camps

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: All eyes are on the MLC byelection being held for Mahabubnagar local bodies constituency on Thursday. Out of total 1,439 elected representatives in local bodies,who include ZPTCs, MPTCs and councillor, the BRS has a strength of 1,039, Congress 241, BJP 119 and others 46. Based on these numbers, it should be a cakewalk for the BRS to win this …

BRS, BJP Put Up LS candidates for All Seats
8 months, 4 weeks ago

BRS, BJP Put Up LS candidates for All Seats

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: The BRS announced Gaddam Srinivas Yadav, a party leader from the Goshamahal Assembly constituency, as its candidate for the Hyderabad Lok Sabha seat on Monday, thus finalising its list for all 17 seats in the state. During the recent Assembly elections, the BRS was the first to announce all its candidates, while for the Lok Sabha polls, it was …

BRS, BSP team up in Telangana for Lok Sabha elections
9 months, 2 weeks ago

BRS, BSP team up in Telangana for Lok Sabha elections

Hindustan Times  

The Bharat Rashtra Samithi, the main opposition party in Telangana, on Tuesday announced forging an alliance with the Bahujan Samaj Party to contest the upcoming Lok Sabha elections in the state. A decision to this effect was taken during a meeting between BRS president and former chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao with BSP Telangana unit president and retired IPS officer …

BRS announces names of four candidates for Lok Sabha polls
9 months, 2 weeks ago

BRS announces names of four candidates for Lok Sabha polls

The Hindu  

Gearing up for the ensuing Lok Sabha elections, Bharat Rashtra Samithi announced names of four leaders for the polls on Monday. BRS president K. Chandrasekhar Rao stated that B. Vinod Kumar will contest from Karimnagar Lok Sabha constituency, Koppula Eshwar from Peddapalli, Nama Nageswara Rao from Khammam and Maloth Kavitha from Mahabubabad. Interestingly, information emanating from the Bharatiya Janata Party …

Kishan Invites BRS Leaders to BJP
10 months, 2 weeks ago

Kishan Invites BRS Leaders to BJP

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: The state BJP will begin its exercise to pick its candidates for the Lok Sabha elections at a meeting of its state election committee to be held in New Delhi on Friday, even as it issued a call to BRS leaders to join the BJP. Telangana has 17 Lok Sabha seats and the BJP state president G. Kishan Reddy …

BRS Likely to Field Bizmen in LS Polls
10 months, 3 weeks ago

BRS Likely to Field Bizmen in LS Polls

Deccan Chronicle  

Following the Assembly poll debacle, the BRS leadership is focusing on high-profile businessmen and offer them party tickets in the ensuing Lok Sabha elections. From the current set of MPs, Ranjith Reddy from Chevella, M. Srinivas Reddy of Mahbubnagar, Kotha Prabhakar Reddy from Medak — recently elected MLA — and Nama Nageswara Rao from Khammam are the big businessmen. It …

Maheshwaram Election Result 2023 Live Updates: BRS Won in this Seat of Telangana
1 year ago

Maheshwaram Election Result 2023 Live Updates: BRS Won in this Seat of Telangana

The Quint  

In the 2023 state Assembly elections, Telangana is witnessing an interesting contest. The second Assembly polls in Telangana were scheduled for 2019 but K Chandrashekhar Rao-led TRS dissolved the house nine months early and Telangana went for an early elections which were held in 2018. After continuously ruling the state for nine years, the BRS is facing anti-incumbency in 2023 …

Telangana election: Overseas team of BRS joins poll campaign
1 year ago

Telangana election: Overseas team of BRS joins poll campaign

Hindustan Times  

Sheikh Ahmed, 29, a project manager working in Oman has been saving up for 18 months -- not money, but vacation days. A large number of NRIs with roots in Telangana have returned home during the poll season to giving an expat vibe to the poll campaign in India’s newest state that was curved out of Andhra Pradesh in 2014. …

Telangana Elections 2023: Full List of BRS Candidates
1 year, 1 month ago

Telangana Elections 2023: Full List of BRS Candidates

News 18  

Telangana is set to witness a triangular contest in the Assembly elections in which the ruling Bharat Rashtra Samithi is hoping for a three-peat. Heavyweights BRS Chief and Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao will contest from Gajwel and Kamareddy constituencies. Full List of Assembly Constituencies in Telangana and BRS Candidates Sirpur – Koneru Konappa Chennur – SC – Balka …

BRS Candidates Speed Up Campaign Works
1 year, 2 months ago

BRS Candidates Speed Up Campaign Works

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: With the official ‘B Forms’ from their party in their kitty, BRS candidates have stepped up their campaigns for the November 30 election that is just 40 days away. Three more party nominees – minister Errabelli Dayakar Rao, Nallamothu Bhaskar Rao, and Kadiam Srihari – received their Form B from party chief and Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao, taking …

Top Congress Leaders from Gadwal join BRS
1 year, 2 months ago

Top Congress Leaders from Gadwal join BRS

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: The Congress in Jogulamba-Gadwal district suffered a serious setback with the District Congress Committee president, along with several other leaders from his party, joining the Bharat Rashtra Samithi on Wednesday. “We have lost faith in that party and decided that as we stand for development of the state, we should join the BRS led by Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar …

KCR all set to take on Opposition
1 year, 2 months ago

KCR all set to take on Opposition

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: After illness and rest, Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao is set to bare his fangs at Opposition parties, with Rao holding a long meeting on Thursday with BRS working president K.T. BRS sources said that the manifesto that Rao will release on October 15 at the Telangana Bhavan would prove to be a “gamechanger” for the party, which is …

BRS releases 115 candidates’ lists for Assembly polls due later this year
1 year, 4 months ago

BRS releases 115 candidates’ lists for Assembly polls due later this year

The Hindu  

Bharat Rashtra Samithi has announced its candidates for 115 out of 119 Assembly Constituencies in the State for the next Assembly elections here on August 21 with only seven changes. In a surprising decision, party president and Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao has announced that he would contests from two seats this time – Gajwel and Kamareddy. For Korutla, the …

BRS eyes fresh vote banks created with new schemes
1 year, 4 months ago

BRS eyes fresh vote banks created with new schemes

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: The BRS is reaching out to emerging vote banks in a bid to consolidate its voting base in Telangana for the upcoming state polls, with recently announced sops indicating an attempt to reach out to multiple sections, sources said. Among the decisions announced since June 2 are the absorption of TSRTC by the state government, regularisation of village revenue …

BRS to Focus on 50 'Weak Constituencies', Drafts Special Poll Strategy
1 year, 5 months ago

BRS to Focus on 50 'Weak Constituencies', Drafts Special Poll Strategy

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: The BRS has decided to focus on 50 Assembly constituencies, where the surveys commissioned by the party leadership have indicated that it will face a tough fight from the Opposition parties. Rama Rao and T. Harish Rao will address public meetings in ‘vulnerable’ constituencies beginning from the month-end, besides launching schemes and distributing sops to reduce the anti-incumbency factor. …

BRS Commissions Special Surveys in 34 Weak' Assembly Segments
1 year, 6 months ago

BRS Commissions Special Surveys in 34 Weak' Assembly Segments

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: The BRS leadership has commissioned special surveys in 34 Assembly constituencies where its candidates had won with a small majority in the 2018 Assembly polls. The rest in the 5,000-vote band were defectors from the Congress who joined the ruling party after the election —Athram Sakku, P. Rohith Reddy, Haripriya Banoth and Vanama Venkateshwara Rao — as well as …

KCR says BRS will contest all seats in Maharashtra polls, rules out alliance
1 year, 6 months ago

KCR says BRS will contest all seats in Maharashtra polls, rules out alliance

Hindustan Times  

Nagpur: Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao on Thursday said his Bharat Rashtra Samithi will not enter into an alliance in Maharashtra and asserted that his party will fight every seat in the state in the civic, assembly and general elections. Addressing a party workers’ meeting after opening his first party office in Nagpur, Rao said his party would contest …

Leaders from MP join BRS in KCR's presence
1 year, 6 months ago

Leaders from MP join BRS in KCR's presence

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Days after several leaders from Maharashtra joined the BRS, a few from Madhya Pradesh too joined the party at Pragathi Bhavan on Wednesday. A prominent social activist from Madhya Pradesh, Anand Roy, who brought to light the Vyapam scam that created a sensation in Madhya Pradesh for years, joined the party in the presence of BRS national president Chief …

BRS Not Keen On Pre-Poll Alliance, May Consider Post Polls
1 year, 7 months ago

BRS Not Keen On Pre-Poll Alliance, May Consider Post Polls

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: The ruling BRS is learnt not to be keen on a pre-poll alliance for the upcoming Assembly polls scheduled for December, according to party sources. In the Munugode Assembly bypoll held in November 2022, the BRS formed a pre-poll alliance with the Left to defeat the BJP and succeeded, but the party is unlikely to revisit the alliance for …

BRS will score a hat-trick in assembly polls: KCR
1 year, 7 months ago

BRS will score a hat-trick in assembly polls: KCR

Hindustan Times  

Hyderabad Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao said the BRS would win not less than 95-105 seats in the 119-member state assembly. Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao on Wednesday exuded confidence that the ruling Bharath Rashtra Samiti would score a hat-trick in the upcoming assembly elections in the state with a thumping majority. All the surveys – external and …

BRS to focus on state, national plans on hold
1 year, 7 months ago

BRS to focus on state, national plans on hold

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: The Bharat Rashtra Samithi leadership, which has been focusing on national politics and expanding the party to other states since October last year, has decided to go slow with its plans. Rama Rao claimed that the Karnataka election results will not have any bearing on Telangana state, the overwhelming victory of the Congress in that state appears to have …

Karnataka election: Despite united front, Marathi speakers’ forum suffers defeat
1 year, 7 months ago

Karnataka election: Despite united front, Marathi speakers’ forum suffers defeat

Hindustan Times  

If the Bharatiya Janata Party suffered drubbing in Karnataka assembly elections, the regional outfit Maharashtra Ekikaran Samiti, an outfit of Marathi-speaking people, also faced defeat with all its candidates’ losing seats. Congress supporters celebrate the party’s good show in Karnataka Assembly polls The poor performance of MES in north Karnataka has put up a question mark if the cause they …

Sitting BRS MLAs' family members aim to grab assembly seats
1 year, 7 months ago

Sitting BRS MLAs' family members aim to grab assembly seats

Deccan Chronicle  

ADILABAD: Sons or other family members of sitting BRS MLAs in some constituencies have become active in public life in the erstwhile Adilabad district, with an eye on contesting the upcoming elections. Mancherial MLA N Diwakar Rao’s son Vijit Rao has begun participating in party programmes and visiting villages to highlight the welfare and development schemes introduced by the BRS …

Armed With Farmer-Friendly Schemes, BRS Gears Up for Third Outing in Maharashtra on April 24
1 year, 8 months ago

Armed With Farmer-Friendly Schemes, BRS Gears Up for Third Outing in Maharashtra on April 24

News 18  

After two public meetings in Maharashtra’s Nanded and Kandhar-Loha, which share borders with Telangana and have a sizeable chunk of Telugu-speaking population, Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao is all geared up to address a third meet in Aurangabad on April 24. Speaking to the media recently, Armoor MLA Jeevan Reddy, who is in charge of the arrangements for the …

BRS eyes 40 Assembly seats with sizable Telugu vote share
1 year, 8 months ago

BRS eyes 40 Assembly seats with sizable Telugu vote share

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: The BRS, which decided to make its foray into electoral politics outside Telangana, has identified nearly 40 Assembly constituencies in 12 districts of Karnataka where Telugu voters play a significant role in determining the fate of candidates. The data gathered by BRS leaders found that Telugu voters account for 76 per cent of voters in Kolar district and potentially …

BRS, BJP, Cong keenly watch Karnataka Assembly polls
1 year, 8 months ago

BRS, BJP, Cong keenly watch Karnataka Assembly polls

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: The ruling BRS, as well as the opposition BJP and Congress, are placing a great deal of importance on the Karnataka Assembly elections, believing that the outcome would have an impact on the Telangana Assembly polls, which are slated for December. The BJP and the Congress, on the other hand, believe that if they win the Karnataka Assembly polls, …

BRS to support JD(S) in Karnataka polls
1 year, 8 months ago

BRS to support JD(S) in Karnataka polls

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: With the Election Commission of India announcing the schedule for the Karnataka Assembly polls, Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao has decided to throw his party’s weight fully behind former chief minister Kumaraswamy by sending a few ministers, party MPs and MLAs to Karnataka to campaign for the JD. Rao met with ministers, MLAs, and senior party leaders at Pragathi …

KCR plans more public rallies in Maharashtra as BRS set to contest local body elections
1 year, 8 months ago

KCR plans more public rallies in Maharashtra as BRS set to contest local body elections

India Today  

On Sunday, Bharat Rashtra Samithi leader and Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao concluded his second BRS rally in Maharashtra at Kandhar Loha. In a bid to expand Bharat Rashtra Samithi’s footprint beyond Telangana, KCR has planned numerous rallies across Maharashtra and other states in the run-up to the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. READ I Maharashtra farmer couple reaches Hyderabad …

BRS’ national outing to start with Maharashtra local body polls
1 year, 9 months ago

BRS’ national outing to start with Maharashtra local body polls

Deccan Chronicle  

Adilabad: Bharat Rashtra Samiti chief K. Chandrasekhar Rao wants to expand the foothold of his rechristened party nationally by first contesting the local body polls in neighbouring Maharashtra under the banner of BRS. Now that TRS has metamorphosed into Bharat Rashtra Samiti, the party will use the same strategy to expand its national foothold by contesting local body elections in …

Assembly polls: BRS leaders to campaign for JDS in Karnataka
1 year, 9 months ago

Assembly polls: BRS leaders to campaign for JDS in Karnataka

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Leaders of the Bharat Rashtra Samithi will campaign for the JDS in the Karnataka Assembly elections only after the Election Commission of India issues the poll notification, although the three major political parties in Karnataka have already ramped up their campaign even before the EC announced the poll schedule for the April/May elections. However, the BRS, which announced its …

Maharashtra: BRS aiming at strengthening the party from the grassroots level
1 year, 9 months ago

Maharashtra: BRS aiming at strengthening the party from the grassroots level

Deccan Chronicle  

Adilabad: The Bharat Rashtra Samithi in Maharashtra is aiming at strengthening the party from the grassroots level to contest the local body elections and municipal polls by April-May. Four days ago, BRS Zahirabad MP BB Patil met the Maharashtra state election commission members and submitted a letter from the Election Commission of India, stating the change of name of the …

Leaders from MP and Maharashtra meet KCR, willing to join BRS
1 year, 10 months ago

Leaders from MP and Maharashtra meet KCR, willing to join BRS

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Many former MPs, MLAs and local leaders from Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh met BRS president and Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao at Pragathi Bhavan on Saturday and expressed their willingness to join the BRS. Party sources said that among them were National United Front of India president Gopal Rishikar Bharti from Chhattisgarh, former Madhya Pradesh MP Bodh Singh …

Polls 2023: BRS focusing on constituencies plagued by dissidence
1 year, 11 months ago

Polls 2023: BRS focusing on constituencies plagued by dissidence

Deccan Chronicle  

Adilabad: With the assembly election year starting, the BRS leadership is focusing on constituencies where internal bickering is strong and local MLAs are unpopular in the erstwhile Adilabad district. The party high command has been conducting surveys for ground-level feedback about the ruling party’s status and the respective local MLA's activity in each assembly constituency. The high command is taking …

BRS to kickstart poll campaign in poll-bound K’taka, Nagaland
1 year, 11 months ago

BRS to kickstart poll campaign in poll-bound K’taka, Nagaland

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: With Assembly elections in Karnataka and Nagaland scheduled for May and February respectively, the Bharat Rashtra Samithi plans to deploy ministers and MLAs to campaign for H.D.Kumaraswamy-led Janata Dal and Sharad Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party in the two poll-bound states. According to party insiders, ministers and BRS MLAs in the districts bordering Karnataka — Ranga Reddy, Medak, Mahabbnagar and …

First electoral outing of newly renamed BRS to be Karnataka, Rao tells MPs, MLAs to help JD(S)
1 year, 11 months ago

First electoral outing of newly renamed BRS to be Karnataka, Rao tells MPs, MLAs to help JD(S)

The Hindu  

Telangana chief minister and leader of the newly renamed Bharat Rashtra Samithi, K. Chandrashekhara Rao is looking at the upcoming Assembly polls in Karnataka as the first outing for his outfit as an electoral force outside Telangana. Senior office bearers in the BRS told The Hindu that Mr. Rao has instructed all party MLAs and MPs to help ally H.D. …

BRS forays into Maharashtra with first meeting in Kini village
2 years ago

BRS forays into Maharashtra with first meeting in Kini village

Deccan Chronicle  

ADILABAD: The first public meeting of Bharat Rashtra Samiti was held at Kini village under Bhokar Assembly constituency in Maharashtra’s Nanded district on Thursday. Minister for forest Allola Indrakaran Reddy and Mudhole MLA Vittal Reddy participated in the meeting while some local leaders joined the party in their presence. Speaking on the occasion, Indrakaran Reddy reeled out welfare and development …

In Delhi, KCR discusses BRS pro-farmer policies
2 years, 2 months ago

In Delhi, KCR discusses BRS pro-farmer policies

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: TRS president and Chief Minister K.Chandrashekar Rao on Thursday reportedly held discussions for the second day at his official residence in Delhi with party MPs and few senior leaders on national politics and expanding BRS activities to various states after Munugode bypoll. Rao is learnt to have told party leaders that the welfare programmes the Telangana government was implementing …

People from Maha, Karnataka borders ready to support us: BRS leaders
2 years, 2 months ago

People from Maha, Karnataka borders ready to support us: BRS leaders

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: Even as TRS cadre is trying to reach out to the people over Bharat Rashtra Samiti, their political rivals have started campaigning against the pink party over its misdeeds. Many TRS leaders, on their part, are hopeful that BRS will show its immediate impact in the bordering areas of Maharashtra and Karnataka. Speaking to Deccan Chronicle, TRS legislator Shakil …

KCR explores TRS options for Prez polls, discusses launch of national party BRS
2 years, 6 months ago

KCR explores TRS options for Prez polls, discusses launch of national party BRS

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: TRS president and Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao held a marathon meeting at Pragathi Bhavan on Friday with ministers, MPs and senior party leaders to discuss the party's strategy for the Presidential election scheduled for July 18 as the deadline for filing nominations, June 29, is less than 20 days away. The CM also reportedly discussed launching a new …

Referendum for Uddhav, Prestige for BJP & Survival for Cong: Decoding Maharashtra's Local Body Polls
3 years, 10 months ago

Referendum for Uddhav, Prestige for BJP & Survival for Cong: Decoding Maharashtra's Local Body Polls

News 18  

The ruling Maha Vikas Aghadi in Maharashtra is preparing for a strategic face-off with the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party in the municipal corporation elections due this year. The Shiv Sena and the Nationalist Congress Party have announced that they will fight these local body polls together, while the Congress may take a decision soon about whether it wants to contest …

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