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=2024=
==Lok Sabha elections==
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[https://epaper.indiatimes.com/article-share?article=05_06_2024_017_008_cap_TOI  June 5, 2024: ''The Times of India'']

[[File: The seats won by and the vote share of the various parties in the Lok Sabha elections of 2019 and 2024 in Telangana.jpg|The seats won by and the vote share of the various parties in the Lok Sabha elections of 2019 and 2024 in Telangana <br/> From: [https://epaper.indiatimes.com/article-share?article=05_06_2024_017_008_cap_TOI  June 5, 2024: ''The Times of India'']|frame|500px]]

Hyderabad:For the first time since the formation of Telangana in 2014, Congress and BJP have become dominant political forces in the state, both sharing the spoils of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections with eight seats each of the 17 up for grabs. This was largely a result of a formidable force like the BRS being decimated.

 BJP’s performance is especially remarkable given that it had no traditional base here like Congress. The four seats it won in 2019 gave it hope of building a base in the southern states beyond Karnataka and the party started working towards making it a gateway to the south. BJP was eying 10 seats but managed eight. BJP had won only one seat in 2014 and four in 2019. While it retained four—Adilabad, Nizamabad, Karimnagar and Secunderabad—it added Malkajgiri, Chevella, Mahbubnagar and Medak to its tally. The saffron party swept the Greater Hyderabad region, leaving only Hyderabad forAsaduddin Owaisi.

 Congress rode the honeymoon period it was enjoying since winning the assembly election in Dec last year. In 2014, it had got only two seats and three in 2019.

 The Lok Sabha polls outcome strengthens chief minister A Revanth Reddy, who also heads the Telangana Congress unit. Revanth had openly declared that these results were a referendum on state govt’s performance and projected it as a battle between Congress and BJP, while dismissing BRS as a ‘fringe player’. 

BRS had 11 seats in 2014 and nine in 2019 but drew a blank this time. This is the only election where the pink party could not win a single seat since its inception in 2001, losing even the Medak seat, which BRS supremo K Chandrashekar Rao had won in 2014.

==Defections from BRS to Congress==
===July===
[https://epaper.indiatimes.com/article-share?article=06_07_2024_016_006_cap_TOI  Roushan Ali, July 6, 2024: ''The Times of India'']


Hyderabad : To the list of reasons why politicians sometimes jump ship in a hurry has been added Amavasya, or “no moon day” in Sanskrit. In Telangana, six MLCs apparently had a rushed entry into Congress at midnight Thursday to avoid making a new beginning coinciding with the moonless night of a new lunar cycle.

 A senior Congress functionary who was privy to the plan to get the MLCs on board said they had been in contact with the party brass over the past few weeks. The switch ahead of a crucial budget session caught BRS off guard.

 “Amavasya was starting early Friday and so the joinings had to be rushed. Even when former assembly speaker Pocharam Srinivas Reddy switched sides, it took everyone by surprise. These things are kept confidential until they happen,” the Congress functionary told TOI. 
Most of the six MLCs were with Congress before they switched allegiance to BRS. Some more MLCs of BRS could join the governing party soon, sources said.

 Basavaraj Saraiah, one of the six MLCs to have crossed over, said it was like a homecoming. “Congress is my original home. It is a national party and we want to be part of it again and work for the development of all.” 

Congress's strength in the 40-member legislative council goes up to 12. The MLCs — Dande Vittal, Bhanu Prasad Rao, B Dayanand, MS Prabhakar Rao, Egge Mallesham and Saraiah — had assembled at a Hyderabad hotel on Thursday evening and were to go to chief minister A Revanth Reddy's residence to join the party. 

The plan changed after Revanth got stuck in Delhi, where he had meetings with PM Narendra Modi and home minister Amit Shah.

 The MLCs waited in the hotel and rushed to the CM’s residence the moment they came to know of his flight from Delhi taking off. Minutes after his return a little before midnight, the MLCs were formally welcomed into the party by AICC's Telangana incharge Deepa Dasmunsi, Revanth and revenue minister Ponguleti Srinivas Reddy.

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