BRS, BSP announce alliance for LS polls in Telangana

Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) and the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) on Tuesday decided to have an alliance in Telangana for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls.

BRS chief K Chandrasekhar Rao, popularly known as KCR and BSP Telangana state president R S Praveen Kumar made this announcement.

KCR said the details of seat-sharing would be announced later. He said there is an ideological similarity between the two parties

Praveen Kumar said his party has decided to work together with BRS to safeguard Telangana from the BJP and also “Congress, which is becoming like the BJP”

Following the announcement, political analysts said that the BRS decided to have alliance with BSP as the BRS chief seems to have lost confidence after his party lost power during the recent assembly elections.

On the other hand, the Congress party is in full swing, while the BJP is also pulling all strings to win as many seats as possible in Telangana. Further, dailts have been traditionally remained Congress supporters. Further, the BSP is growing strong in Telangana ever since former IPS officer, Praveen Kumar joined politics and steering BSP in the state. The BSP has potential to divide winning votes and KCR did not want to take any chance, analysts said.