Hyderabad, March 20 -- Last year's Telangana Assembly election loss seems to have hit the K Chandrasekhar Rao (KCR)-led Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) quite hard. With the party in disarray due to ongoing defections by MLAs and MPs, KCR's grand plans to going national also seem to have come to a screeching halt. As things stand it is unsure if the BRS will even contest the upcoming Lok Sabha elections in Maharashtra.

Over the last few years after KCR rechristened the Telangana Rashtra Samithi to BRS to go national, offices were set up in different states. The ex-chief minister specifically was looking at Maharashtra which shares a border with Telangana. A lot of leaders including ex-legislators from Maharashtra had also joined the BRS and ...