BRS allots Hyderabad, Nagarkurnool Lok Sabha seats to BSP as part of alliance

HYDERABAD: The BSP will contest the Hyderabad and Nagarkurnool Lok Sabha seats, out of the total 17 constituencies in Telangana, as part of its alliance with the BRS.

Making this announcement, BRS said on Friday that K Chandrashekar Rao (KCR) has allocated the two seats to the BSP. Earlier this month, the BRS and the BSP announced a pre-poll alliance in Telangana for the Lok Sabha polls following talks between KCR and the State BSP president RS Praveen Kumar.

KCR had then said there was an ideological similarity between the two parties on various issues as the previous BRS Government headed by him had implemented Dalit Bandhu and other schemes for the welfare of Dalits and others. Claiming that secularism was in danger in the country due to the BJP, Praveen Kumar had said his party had decided to work together with BRS to safeguard Telangana from the BJP and also "Congress, which is becoming like the BJP".

BSP Rajya Sabha member Ramji Gautam, Praveen Kumar and other party leaders held a meeting with KCR at the latter's residence on March 13. The BRS has so far announced its candidates from 11 Lok Sabha seats.