BSP will contest elections on two seats in Telangana under alliance with BRS

Under the alliance with K. Chandrasekhar Rao-led BRS, the BSP will contest Hyderabad and Nagarkurnool (SC) Lok Sabha seats out of the total 17 seats in Telangana.

Rao, also known as KCR, has allotted two seats to the Bahujan Samaj Party, a BRS release on Friday said.
BSP Telangana unit president R S Praveen Kumar, previously an IPS officer, will contest from Nagarkurnool constituency, a BSP release said.
It said that the candidate from Hyderabad will be announced soon.
Hyderabad is being represented in the outgoing Lok Sabha by AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi.
On March 5, BRS and BSP announced a pre-poll alliance in Telangana for the Lok Sabha elections, following talks between KCR and Praveen Kumar.
KCR had then said that there is ideological similarity between the two parties on various issues as the previous BRS government led by him had implemented Dalit Bandhu and other schemes for the welfare of Dalits and others.
Claiming that secularism is under threat in the country because of the BJP, Praveen Kumar had said that his party had decided to work together with the BRS to save Telangana from the BJP and “Congress, which is becoming like the BJP”. Have decided.
BRS has protected secularism, he said.
Bharat Rashtra Samiti (BRS) on March 13 said BSP Rajya Sabha members Ramji Gautam, Praveen Kumar and other party leaders held a meeting with KCR at his residence here.
BRS has so far announced its candidates from 11 Lok Sabha seats.