After conquering Karnataka state, Bharatiya Janata Party appears to be going rather aggressively in Telangana with an eye on power in 2023 assembly elections.

The BJP dropped a bombshell on the Telangana Rashtra Samithi by claiming that some of the Telangana Rashtra Samithi MLAs are in touch with it and might join the BJP any time. This is apart from leaders from other parties like the Congress and the Telugu Desam Party.

“There are several disgruntled MLAs in the TRS, who are feeling suffocated in the party. They are doubtful whether they would be able to win the next elections, if they continued in the party. They are in touch with us and might join the BJP anytime,” former Mahabubnagar MP A P Jitender Reddy, who defected from the TRS to the BJP said.

On Tuesday, BJP national general secretary P Muralidhar Rao also asserted that the BJP would spread rapidly in Telangana.

“We are going to chase the BJP every moment hereafter till we achieve our goal. We will show what an opposition party can do to the ruling party,” he said.

Stating that the TRS government headed by chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao was totally ineffective without any concrete political ideology, Muralidhar Rao appealed to the people to teach a fitting lesson to the TRS in the next elections.

“Those who are keen on pulling down the TRS government are looking up to the BJP as an alternative,” he said.