LS elections 2024: BRS MP from Zaheerabad BB Patil joins BJP

Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) MP BB Patil joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) today (March 1) in yet another setback to the regional party ahead of the Lok Sabha polls 2024 as the country's ruling party looks to boost its tally in Telangana and other southern state.

The development came a day after Pothuganti Ramulu, the BRS MP from the Nagarkurnool parliamentary constituency in the state, joined the BJP, which is expected to field the son of the Dalit leader



from the seat and Patil from Zaheerabad, which he currently represents in Lok Sabha. After the BRS lost the assembly elections recently, a number of its leaders quit the party to join the BJP or the Congress, which is in power in the state now.

Two-term MP Patil lauded the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi as he joined the BJP in the presence of Union minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar, the party's Telangana in-charge Tarun Chugh and its OBC morcha chief K Lakshman.