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Sources in the party said the State leadership had so far finalised candidates for 10 constituencies, including the four sitting seats, while hectic discussions were over the remaining seats.

With 94 seats out of the 239, BJP is currently the single-largest party in the Upper House, followed by Congress with 30 seats and Trinamool Congress with 13 seats.

BJP National President JP Nadda was scheduled to visit Hyderabad on Saturday and was likely to discuss the BJPLP leader issue with the State leaders.

DK Shivakumar also reacted to the matter and said that the BJP was trying to do politics on the incident in spite of the state government taking action against the culprits.

Earlier in the day, the core group meeting was held at the BJP's Telangana poll incharge Prakash Javadekar's residence, which lasted for over seven hours.

In his over 30-minutes speech, Nadda looked disappointed with the way things were moving in Telangana and how the State leaders have failed to highlight the contribution of Centre in the development of the State.

Nadda lauded Bihar BJP president Samrat Choudhary for having said in his speech that the party no longer wanted to "carry others on our shoulders", an obvious reference to Nitish Kumar who had quit the NDA last year.

Visuals from the scene showed Nadda being safely escorted out of the venue even as the fire engulfed the top portion of the makeshift pandal in the Lokmanya Nagar area in the heart of the city

Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) leader Chirag Paswan has decided to join the NDA alliance under Prime Minister Narendra Modi's leadership, BJP chief JP Nadda announced on Monday.

The internal discord in the State BJP unit is continuing with several leaders preparing to jump ship and join rival parties in the coming days

JP Nadda has asked party leaders from Telangana to pull up their socks for the upcoming assembly elections

The duo were summoned by Nadda on June 24 to Delhi to discuss issues related to their decision to leave the party

BJP president Nadda came to Telangana and did not utter a word that is useful for the people and instead he resorted to talking rubbish, said KT Rama Rao

Following reports that Eatala Rajender and Rajgopal Reddy had made up their mind to leave the party and join the Congress, they were summoned by Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Nadda to Delhi on Saturday

JP Nadda expressed displeasure over the behaviour of a few senior leaders and asked them to sort out differences in the interest of the party

Ever since Rajender and Rajgopal Reddy joined the BJP, they had differences with Bandi Sanjay and they even brought it to the notice of the party high command

BJP had become TJP in Andhra Pradesh (with some TDP Rajya Sabha members crossing the floor to join BJP), said Perni Nani

Development is BJP's agenda and we have created basic infrastructural facilities in all villages across the country, said JP Nadda

With the BJP national president JP Nadda also joining them at the minister's residence, it gave room for speculation on their possible electoral alliances in the coming elections.

Lingaiah Yadav said the BJP government at the Centre had indulged in several corrupt deals in the last eight years