BRS may lose heavily in Lok Sabha elections

With the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) winning only 39 seats in the Assembly elections, there is a view in informed quarters that BRS could lose most of the seats in the upcoming LS election.
Telangana has a total of 17 Lok Sabha seats, with the Hyderabad Lok Sabha seat being mostly held by the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul-Muslimeen (MIM). That is, only sixteen seats are contested by major parties.  BRS currently has nine members in the Lok Sabha. In the just- concluded Telangana Assembly elections, BRS won most of the seats in GHMC. In terms of erstwhile districts, it got five Assembly seats out of 13 in Karimnagar district and seven Assembly seats out of 10 in Medak. The leaders of the party agree that, in the upcoming General Election, it is not possible for BRS to win Lok Sabha seats like in the past.
Besides, during the Assembly election campaign, KCR’s refrain was that the coming government at the Centre would be a government of regional parties. But now BRS has lost power in Telangana. So, there are many leaders in the party who doubt the possibility of BRS focusing on elections in other states. In fact, BRS leaders see the possibility of KCR changing the composition of candidates contesting in the Lok Sabha polls. New entrants have already expressed their desire to contest.
Sources in the party said that should KCR give ticket to those who had lost in the Assembly elections; it would deal a death blow to BRS. Sources said the former CM himself may contest in the Lok Sabha for two reasons: one, he is interested in national politics; two, it will help him drive the message that the party is still going to make its voice heard and that Kamareddy was a small setback.