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 a serious note of the groupism in the party in various assembly constituencies where several leaders and elected representatives are aspiring for party ticket in the upcoming polls. Meanwhile, Neredigonda TRS-ZPTC, Anil Jadhav, aspiring for a party ticket from the Boath assembly constituency, stated that he would contest the polls if the party high command gave him a chance. Adilabad ZP chairperson Rathod Janardhan is also aspiring for a party ticket from the Khanapur constituency reserved for STs, where TRS sitting MLA Rekha Naik is a strong contender for the party ticket.

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BRS plans to expose Congress’ double standards on defections in Parliament
5 months, 2 weeks ago

BRS plans to expose Congress’ double standards on defections in Parliament

The Hindu  

The Bharat Rashtra Samithi Parliamentary Party has alleged that the Congress party is following double standards in the anti-defection issue as it has been vigorously encouraging the defections after making an election promise that it would amend the Constitution to make automatic the disqualification of MPs and MLAs who defect from the party they are elected, to another. Working president …

BRS leadership puts up brave face as one more MLA leaves party
5 months, 3 weeks ago

BRS leadership puts up brave face as one more MLA leaves party

The Hindu  

The Bharat Rashtra Samithi leadership is trying to put up a brave face and posing unfazed by the ruling Congress’ continuous ‘poaching’ of MLAs, with one more joining the Congress ranks on Friday, and reducing BRS strength in the Assembly to 32 practically, if not technically. Legislators Danam Nagender, Kadiyam Srihari, Tellam Venkata Rao, Pocharam Srinivas Reddy, M. Sanjay and …

BRS leadership plans party meets for introspection, way forward
6 months, 1 week ago

BRS leadership plans party meets for introspection, way forward

The Hindu  

The Bharat Rashtra Samithi leadership is planning to hold an extensive meeting of the party soon for introspection — the situation in which it finds itself after suffering the worst-ever poll debacle in the recent Lok Sabha elections in its 23 years of existence and the way forward. Irrespective of the reasoning expressed in some circles of the party, that …

I Am a Local, and Will Work for You: Ragidi Tells Voters
7 months, 2 weeks ago

I Am a Local, and Will Work for You: Ragidi Tells Voters

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: BRS candidate from the Malkajgiri Lok Sabha constituency Ragidi Laxma Reddy on Friday called on people to vote for the BRS to ensure that they have an MP who will listen to them, and work for them. Laxma Reddy took part in several events, including a bike rally and was accompanied on the campaign trail by party MLAs Shambhipur …

BRS intensifies direct campaign, social media battle as Lok Sabha polls draw near
8 months ago

BRS intensifies direct campaign, social media battle as Lok Sabha polls draw near

The Hindu  

Realising that it is being pushed into a corner by the ruling Congress party with all its might, and in its own measure by the Bharatiya Janata Party, the Bharat Rashtra Samithi has begun campaigning actively for the Lok Sabha elections by meeting people, party leaders and supporters and contacting other social groups. The party’s think tank has shortlisted issues …

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 …

BRS May Exclude Some MPs from LS Polls
11 months, 2 weeks ago

BRS May Exclude Some MPs from LS Polls

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: The BRS is meetings its leaders from one Lok Sabha constituency every day, to potentially exclude some sitting MPs in the upcoming Parliament elections. Expressing concern, one sitting BRS MP mentioned that the party leadership ignored suggestions from several MPs regarding candidate selection for the Assembly polls. Meanwhile, a day after conceding that the failure to properly implement programmes …

Poll tempo picks up at Amberpet, BRS leaders join Congress
1 year, 1 month ago

Poll tempo picks up at Amberpet, BRS leaders join Congress

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: The electoral battle has intensified in Amberpet constituency with several leaders from the BRS shifting loyalty to the Congress, and senior Congress leaders joining the election campaign of Dr Rohin Reddy, the Congress candidate. He is extensively campaigning for Rohin Reddy in Barkatpura where the residence of TS BJP chief Union minister G. Kishan Reddy is located. Former corporators …

BRS will outplay all opponents in the next Assembly elections: Harish Rao
1 year, 2 months ago

BRS will outplay all opponents in the next Assembly elections: Harish Rao

Deccan Chronicle  

Adilabad: Cashing in on the cricket fever that has engulfed the nation, courtesy of the ICC World Cup 2023, and making dexterous use of the sport’s terminology, health minister T. Harish Rao said that Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao will hit a sixer while the Congress will be run out and the BJP will score a duck in the next …

Poll battle: BRS nominees try to steal MLAs' thunder
1 year, 2 months ago

Poll battle: BRS nominees try to steal MLAs' thunder

Deccan Chronicle  

ADILABAD: In a surprising move ahead of the Assembly elections, the ruling BRS nominees were taking care of developmental works in their respective constituencies where poll tickets were denied to the MLAs in the erstwhile Adilabad district. New face and NRI Bhukya Johson Rathod Naik was chosen for Khanapur against MLA Ajmera Rekha Naik and Neredigonda ZPTC Anil Jadhav from …

BRS Leaders Vow to Contest Against Sitting MLAs in Karimnagar District
1 year, 3 months ago

BRS Leaders Vow to Contest Against Sitting MLAs in Karimnagar District

Deccan Chronicle  

Karimnagar: A “rebel” menace is likely to haunt the ruling BRS in the upcoming assembly polls. Some leaders who aspired for MLA tickets but were snubbed by the party leadership are readying to contest the Assembly elections against sitting MLAs of the party in the Karimnagar region. With encouragement from our followers, we would contest against the sitting MLAs as …

BRS leaders seek change of sitting MLAs in some constituencies
1 year, 3 months ago

BRS leaders seek change of sitting MLAs in some constituencies

Deccan Chronicle  

WARANGAL: A demand for change of some BRS MLAs, whose candidatures were announced by Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao for various assembly segments, is gaining steam in erstwhile Warangal district. Telangana statehood activists and leaders of various people’s organisations met under the leadership of Sandela Sunil and Arey Sankshema Sangham state convener Jenda Rakesh at a private function hall in …

Fissures within BRS After KCR Releases First List
1 year, 4 months ago

Fissures within BRS After KCR Releases First List

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: After Chief Minister and BRS party chief K. Chandrashekar Rao announced 115 candidates for the upcoming Assembly elections, dissension has grown within the ruling party. Former MLA Chander Rao and former Market Committee chairman Sashidhar Reddy opposed the Chief Minister's decision citing his involvement in illegal activities. Among the visibly disappointed BRS MLAs is former deputy chief minister Tatikonda …

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 …

Differences among BRS MLAs over creation of new mandal
1 year, 5 months ago

Differences among BRS MLAs over creation of new mandal

Deccan Chronicle  

ADILABAD: Groupism has been accentuated in BRS in the Boath assembly constituency as the party's MLAs responded differently over the creation of a new mandal Sonala in this district and some leaders started claiming credit. Adilabad MLA Jogu Ramanna alleged that the new mandal came into being despite attempts by some leaders to stall it. Senior BRS leader K Srinivas …

BRS Dissidents Ignore Top Brass
1 year, 5 months ago

BRS Dissidents Ignore Top Brass

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: The ruling Bharat Rashtra Samithi has a big headache to sort it on its hands — internecine feuds. Warring BRS leaders have made no effort to hide these fights and are holding press conferences and hurling abuses at their rivals in public, and on social media, indicating the level of dissidence and infighting within the party. Parigi MLA Koppula …

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. …

Race for Tickets Heats Up in BRS
1 year, 5 months ago

Race for Tickets Heats Up in BRS

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Ahead of the Assembly polls, the BRS is in a quandary of plenty, as incumbent legislators are sparring with senior BRS leaders — with the fight especially acute in constituencies where Congress MLAs switched to BRS — and GHMC corporators for poll tickets. Two days ago, when Rama Rao was in Uppal to inaugurate a skywalk, supporters of three …

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 …

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 …

BRS MLAs hopeful of getting party ticket for next polls
1 year, 8 months ago

BRS MLAs hopeful of getting party ticket for next polls

Deccan Chronicle  

ADILABAD: Some BRS MLAs have expressed their confidence about getting the party ticket yet again to contest the next elections. Sitting MLA Ajmeera Rekha Naik said she will again get the ticket and contest from Khanapur while Jogu Ramanna said his supporters wanted him to contest the polls and again support KCR’s leadership of the state. The differences between the …

Assembly-wise meetings to sound poll bugle for Assembly polls
1 year, 8 months ago

Assembly-wise meetings to sound poll bugle for Assembly polls

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: BRS working president K.T. Rama Rao, who held a teleconference with the party leaders on Sunday to discuss the agenda and announced a plan to make the meetings successful, stated that the party will discuss six political resolutions on agriculture, welfare, Palle Pragathi-Pattana Pragathi, education and employment, BJP's failures and local issues. The third resolution would address education and …

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 …

BRS wooing minority leaders and youths into party
1 year, 10 months ago

BRS wooing minority leaders and youths into party

Deccan Chronicle  

ADILABAD: Several BRS MLAs and senior party leaders in this region are wooing minority communities and their leaders as also more youths into the party in the run-up to the assembly polls in Telangana State. The BRS high command would accommodate senior minority leaders in suitable nominated posts at the district and state levels, party sources said. Notably, several minority …

Gamangs’ meet KCR, bolster Opposition support to BRS
1 year, 11 months ago

Gamangs’ meet KCR, bolster Opposition support to BRS

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: As the BRS gears up for the first public meeting at Khammam on January 18 since its name change from the TRS, to lead the Opposition's show of strength with non-BJP CMs, former Odisha chief minister Giridhar Gamang and his son Shishir, who quit the Congress and joined the BJP in 2015, met with BRS president and Chief Minister …

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 …

Raghunandan Rao in a spot
1 year, 11 months ago

Raghunandan Rao in a spot

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: Internal strife is yet again to the fore in the BJP in the Dubbak Assembly constituency with some party leaders accusing M. Raghunandan Rao, the party MLA of high-handedness and ignoring long-time party leaders and workers. It is learnt that they would approach the party leadership at the state level with an allegation that Raghunandan Rao was a BRS …

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 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 …

TRS cadre want KTR and Harish Rao to campaign in Munugode
2 years, 1 month ago

TRS cadre want KTR and Harish Rao to campaign in Munugode

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao's public meeting in Munugode constituency has boosted the party's prospects, but Nalgonda district leaders want ministers K.T. While Rama Rao last campaigned in Ghattuppal on October 23, Harish Rao did so on October 26, but both leaders have stayed away from the campaign since then, instead holding meetings at Pragathi Bhavan and Telangana Bhavan …

TRS MLAs wooing Congress leaders into ruling party in TS
2 years, 2 months ago

TRS MLAs wooing Congress leaders into ruling party in TS

Deccan Chronicle  

Adilabad: TRS MLAs are wooing second-rung Congress leaders into the ruling party in Telangana State, so as to strengthen the party base as well as improve their own prospects in assembly constituencies in the region. TRS leaders feel a further weakening of the Congress party will be to the electoral advantage of the ruling party. TRS leaders are also wooing …

TRS outreach likely to help in Munugode bypoll
2 years, 2 months ago

TRS outreach likely to help in Munugode bypoll

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: The micro-level outreach to the masses seems to be helping the TRS in containing the anti-incumbency mood in Munugode, which might otherwise have handed over the Assembly seat to incumbent Komatireddy Rajagopal Reddy on a platter. Though no party is comfortably poised to win the bypoll or could confidently claim securing a 35 per cent plus vote share, the …

TRS takes the debate route in poll run-up
2 years, 4 months ago

TRS takes the debate route in poll run-up

Deccan Chronicle  

Warangal: Amid the political developments in Munugode in the run-up to the Assembly elections next year, a curious trend of politicians challenging their local rivals to debates is on the rise. The tendency seems to be especially acute among TRS members, who seem to be taken with the debate route to prove their supremacy — or innocence — over allegations …

Anticipating bypoll, TRS to hold public meeting in Rajagopal constituency
2 years, 4 months ago

Anticipating bypoll, TRS to hold public meeting in Rajagopal constituency

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: After creating Gattupal in Munugode Assembly constituency as a mandal status, the TRS plans to hold a public meeting on Tuesday to thank Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao for fulfilling the long-pending demand. In a significant political move, the TRS on Monday inducted Edem Kailasam, convener of the Gattuppal Mandala Sadhana Samiti — which fought for the mandal status …

TRS in tight spot as infightings pop up ahead of polls
2 years, 6 months ago

TRS in tight spot as infightings pop up ahead of polls

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: Infighting in the TRS has intensified due to differences between ministers, MLAs and senior party leaders in the districts, and disgruntled leaders are threatening to quit the party. Last week, he visited the residence of former minister Jupally Krishna Rao in Kollapur, who is staying away from party activities for long following differences with MLA B. Harshavardhan Reddy, who …

Clarity on \'BRS\' likely at TRS state executive committee meeting
2 years, 6 months ago

Clarity on \'BRS\' likely at TRS state executive committee meeting

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: There is no end to the euphoria within the TRS over party president and Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao's decision to launch a national political outfit, whose name supposedly has been finalised as Bharatiya Rashtra Samiti, despite the TRS leaders and cadre now having to look for answers to various questions they have been facing from other parties initially, …

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 …

Former TRS MLAs not happy over party committees
3 years, 3 months ago

Former TRS MLAs not happy over party committees

Deccan Chronicle  

Khammam: Several TRS former MLAs are unhappy and some have expressed their resentment to the party high command over alleged "lapses” in the recent formation of party committees in gram panchayats and mandals in Telangana State. Some leaders with no public support were placed in these posts,'' he said, adding that the Dammapet party president post was given to Rajeswara …

The importance of Dubbaka, BJP’s win in the by-elections and how Raghunandan Rao achieved the impossible
4 years, 1 month ago

The importance of Dubbaka, BJP’s win in the by-elections and how Raghunandan Rao achieved the impossible

Op India  

While most people in the country were interested in the results of the Bihar elections and probably Madhya Pradesh by-elections too, a very gripping story was building up in the bye-election results of the Dubbaka constituency in Telangana. BJP’s candidate in Dubbaka is one of the most prominent faces of the party in the state – Raghunandan Rao. He is …

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