Telangana: BSP to contest from two LS constituencies 

BRS president KCR announced that as part of the alliance, the BRS will contest from 15 of 17 Lok Sabha constituencies and the BSP from two constituencies

Hyderabad: The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) will contest from the Parliamentary constituencies of Hyderabad and Nagarkurnool in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, as part of its alliance with the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) in Telangana. BRS president K Chandrashekhar Rao on Friday announced that as part of the alliance, the BRS will contest from 15 of 17 Lok Sabha constituencies and the BSP from two constituencies.

Accordingly, the BSP will soon announce its candidates for both the Parliamentary constituencies. Sources indicated that the party State president RS Praveen Kumar is likely to contest from Nagarkurnool. Former Minister S Niranjan Reddy and BRS Nagarkurnool district president Guvvala Balaraju welcomed the party decision and called on the party cadre to extend support to the BRS-BSP candidate from the constituency.

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Earlier this month, the BRS and the BSP announced a pre-poll alliance in Telangana following talks between Chandrashekhar Rao and BSP State president RS Praveen Kumar. Both the parties stated that they have decided to work together as they share similar ideologies and values. They vowed to work together to safeguard secularism in the country as both the BJP and the Congress have failed the country.

Meanwhile, the BRS has already announced candidates for 11 of the 15 constituencies to contest for the Lok Sabha. Of these, the BRS nominated only five sitting MPs and opted for new faces in the rest of the six constituencies. The party is expected to announce the remaining four candidates in the next couple of days.