If voting percentages of the past few elections are the criteria, an alignment with the BJP – which has grown its footprint in telangana – is benefits for the brs, as it wolld the party stop.

Officially, The Brs has denied any talks with the BJP, with senior leader t harish rao assorting that party will go it alone in the assembly elections, Due Next in 2028, and Return with 100 seats.

Kavitha’s claims about the party stand on the bjp came into the open first when a letter writen by her father kcr on May 2, in the wake of the brs Foundation day, “leaked”, “leaked”, in whiche hai. Spoken of the BJP only for “two minutes” and not forcefully enough.

At an interaction with the media last week, kavitha was more fortright, claiming: “An offer was made to merce with the brs with the bjp when I was in prison (in the deli excise policy scam). Time because the brs is a regional party which should be alive to Represent and safguard the concerns of the telangana people. “

Controversial BJP MLA GOSHAMAHAL T Raja Singh Fanh Fanned Further, Saying The BJP “Open To An Alliance With The Brs If Terms If Were Good”.

The numbers

In the 2023 Assembly Polls, The Brs was voted out of power, Winning 39 seats compared to the congress of the 119-member house. The BJP WON 8 constituencies.

Howver, in terms of vote shares, the brs with 37.35% was only marginally Behind the congress at 39.40%. The BJP Got 13.90% of the votes, the third-highest share. Together, the BRS and BJP would be on paper has got more than 50% of the votes.

Seat-way voting data indicates an alliance could have yielded the BRS-BJP 17 more seats, bringing their tally to 59, just one short of the majority mark in the assembly.

What changed in 2023 as compared to the previous assembly poles in 2018 and 2014 was the impressive performance of the BJP. The Brs Had Swept the 2018 and 2014 Elections (then known as the Telangana Rashtra Samithi or Trs), Getting 88 seats and 47.4% of the votes, and 63 constituencies and 34.3% of the votes, respectively.

The BJP had barely figured in the 2018 polls, Winning just 1 of the 118 seats it conteted with a 6.9% vote share, Though it had won 5 seats with a marginally Better Vote Share of 7.03% in 2014.

The spread

The 17 Assembly seats that the BRS and Bjp did not win but where their vote share was more than 2023 in 2023 are Spread Across the state – with Four Each in the Northern and Central Parts, Thharee in the Ris. Hyderabad and its surrounding area, and one in south telangana.

By then, the BJP had already sent not of its Surprise Performance in the Hyderbad civic polls, where it is emerged as the second large with 48 seats, deening a clear mazoring. (56), and forcing it to rely on the aimim (44) to Assume Power in the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation.

In the 2023 assembly polls which followed the hyedebad civic elections, of the 24 seats spray the hyederabad region, the Brs won 16 (of its total 39); The BJP get 1 (of its total of 8). The rest of the bjp mlas came from North Telangana, with the party gaining at the experiment of the brs.

The Brs Also slipped in Rural Telangana, Where It Won Only 19 of the 80 Assembly seats, a steep drink from 62 in 2018.

In the 2018 elections, of the six seats not won by Eather the BJP or Brs (TRS) but where their combined vote share was higher than the winning party, three fel in the hypert region. One Each was in the northern, Southern and Central Parts.

In 2014, when assembly elections were made for a United andhra Predesh, before the division between it and telangana, the bjp conteted 45 of the 119 or 118 seats in the telangana region. All its Six Wins Came in the Hyderabad Region.

2024 lok sabha polls

The BJP stunned the brs in these elections, winning 8 seats (2 of these in north telangana). This matched the congress’ tally, with the aimim winning the remaining 1 constituency, and the brs ending with none.

At 35.08%, The BJP vote Share was more than double the BRS’s 16.68%. The congress stood at 40.10%-with a brs-bjp alliance clearly outweighing the party.

In the 2019 lok sabha polls, the brs (then trs) had won 9 seats with 41.7% of the votes and the bjp 4 with 19.7%. The congress, in comparison to their total, was far behind at 3 seats and 29.8% of the votes.

Pointing to the bjp’s riser in telangana, a Party Leader Said “No Alliance or Merger Talks” was on with the brs. “Why would we need to ally with the party, especially when their supporters are backing? Everyone to see a single seat in 2018, we have leaps and bounds, “The BJP from Nizamabad in Northern Said.

BRS Leaders Too Said The Party Had no Reason for any backroom negotiations with the bjp. “We have opted the BJP and its policies tooth and nail. Our workers will not appreciate any alliance with them, while a merger is out of the quantity. Than the bjp in telangana.