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BRS will return to power in Telangana, KCR will become CM again: KTR

Kochi/Hyderabad, Sep 30 (UNI) Bharat Rashtra Samiti (BRS) Working President K T Rama Rao (KTR) said the BRS would return to power in Telangana and party chief K Chandrashekar Rao (KCR) would become Chief Minister again.
Speaking at the India Today Conclave South 2026 on “Telangana State – Formation to Transformation” in Kochi, Kerala, on Wednesday, KTR ruled out any alliance with the BJP, saying the BRS had never entered into an alliance with the BJP in its 26-year history and had contested the 2014, 2018 and 2023 elections independently.
KTR said the BRS was ideologically opposed to the BJP and questioned why the party would consider an alliance with it.
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