The KCR-led Bharat Rashtra Samithi on Monday announced its first list of four candidates for Lok Sabha elections, retaining two of its sitting MPs.
The party was hit by poaching with two of its sitting MPs lured away by the BJP and another by the Congress.
Party supremo K Chandrasekhar Rao nominated sitting MP Nama Nageshwar Rao from Khammam and Maloth Kavitha from Mahabubabad constituencies. He also renominated former MP B Vinod Kumar from Karimnagar. In 2019, Kumar lost the seat to BJP MP Bandi Sanjay Kumar.
For the Peddapalli seat, Rao has chosen to give the nomination to former minister Koppula Eshwar. The sitting BRS MP from Peddapalli, Venkatesh Netha Borlakunta has recently joined the Congress and is likely to contest from the same seat.
The BRS supremo spoke to party leaders of the constituencies of Karimnagar and Peddapalli on Sunday before deciding upon the candidates.
Meanwhile, BRS working president K T Rama Rao accused the Congress government of looting Rs 20,000 crore from the people of Telangana through the land regularization scheme (LRS). He demanded immediate regularization of plots without charging any fees from the applicants, claiming that the Congress had promised to do the same for free in the past.