In 2014, TRS came to power and KCR became first Chief Minister of newly created Telangana State with the slogan and promise of achieving “Bangaru Telangana” (Golden Telangana).

Five years down the line, KCR’s Bangaru Telangana still remains a distant dream but he has achieved the dubious distinction of making Telangana into “Defections Telangana”.

Telangana topped the entire country in defection of MLAs since 2014.

In the process, TRS also achieved the distinction of admitting highest number of defected MLAs from other parties.

TRS admitted 27 MLAs from Congress, TDP, YSRCP, BSP and CPI. TRS won just 63 seats out of 119 in 2014 Assembly polls.

However, it’s tally increased to 90 later due to defection of MLAs from other parties.

TRS won recent Assembly polls in December 2018 and came to power for second term.

Within four months of coming to power again, TRS again created a record in the country of admitting highest number of MLAs from other parties.

Already 11 Congress MLAs, 1 TDP MLA and two independent MLAs joined Congress. Few more Congress MLAs and lone TDP MLA are also in the pipeline to join TRS anytime.

Looks like, no one can beat TRS in engineering splits and defections in other parties.

After Telangana, neighbouring state Andhra Pradesh holds the distinction in highest defections.

TDP chief and AP CM N Chandrababu Naidu has admitted 23 MLAs and 3 MPs from YSRCP between 2014 and 2018.