KTR shuts BJP alliance door, backs KCR again
At the India Today Conclave South, the BRS working president ruled out an alliance with the BJP and said K. Chandrashekar Rao—not he—would be the party’s chief-ministerial face.
KTR ruled out a BRS–BJP alliance and backed KCR as the party’s chief-ministerial face.
K. T. Rama Rao shut down talk of a BRS–BJP alliance on Wednesday, September 30, and put K. Chandrashekar Rao back at the centre of Telangana’s next Assembly campaign. The BRS working president was speaking at the India Today Conclave South 2026 in Kochi, during a session titled “Beyond Cyberabad: The Case for Telangana’s Next Decade.”
“Our party is 26 years old. We never had any alliance with the BJP,” KTR said. Asked whether he would be the BRS’s chief-ministerial face, he replied: “Absolutely not,” before naming KCR. UNI separately reported KTR’s prediction that the BRS would return to power and KCR would become chief minister again. That is a political forecast, not a result sheet from the future.
KTR also questioned the proposed approach to delimitation, asking why Assembly seats should not be increased alongside—or instead of—Lok Sabha seats. The BJP has backed the delimitation process, while southern parties have warned about representation. The precise impact on Telangana remains unknown; no final seat-allocation framework is established in the material reviewed. The BJP’s response to KTR’s September 30 remarks has not been published in the sources consulted. For now, the BJP has a closed alliance door and a delimitation debate it would prefer everyone to enter without counting the chairs.