The Bharat Rashtra Samithi, formerly known as Telangana Rashtra Samithi, is an Indian political party which is predominantly active in the state of Telangana and currently the primary opposition party in the state. It was founded on 27 April 2001 by K. Chandrashekar Rao, with a single-point agenda of creating a separate Telangana state with Hyderabad as its capital. It has been instrumental in carrying forth a sustained agitation for the granting of statehood to Telangana.
Dharmapuri Srinivas was an Indian politician from Telangana. He served as a president of Andhra Pradesh Congress Committee and was a three time Member of the Legislative Assembly.
Kadiyam Srihari is an Indian politician is currently the MLA from the Ghanpur Station Assembly constituency. He also served as the Deputy Chief Minister of Telangana and Minister for Education of Telangana from 2014 to 2018. He was also an MLC in the Telangana Legislative Council. He was a member of the Lok Sabha, representing the Warangal constituency from 2014-2015.
Thummala Nageswara Rao is a Congress politician who has been a minister in the Government of Andhra Pradesh and, later, in the Government of Telangana. In main portfolios he is from the Khammam district.
Kalvakuntla Chandrashekar Rao, frequently known by his initials KCR, is an Indian politician currently representing the Gajwel Assembly constituency and serving as the leader of the opposition in the Telangana Legislative Assembly. He is the founder and leader of the Bharat Rashtra Samithi, a state party in India. After heading the Telangana Movement, he was the first Chief Minister of Telangana and held the position for almost 10 years.
Karne Prabhakar is an Indian politician and politburo member of Telangana Rashtra Samithi.
Madhavaneni Raghunandan Rao is an Indian politician from Telangana state and a member of parliament representing from Medak Lok Sabha constituency. Previously he served as an MLA for Dubbak Assembly constituency. He is a strong supporter of Telangana state ideology. He is a lawyer by profession. He hails from Medak district.
Duddilla Sridhar Babu is an Indian politician from Indian National Congress and is a member of the Telangana Assembly from Manthani Constituency, Peddapalli district which he won for the fifth time as MLA in December 2023. He is a senior Minister in the Telangana Government holding the crucial portfolios of Information Technology, Electronics & Communication, Industry & Commerce and Legislative Affairs. Sridhar Babu is one of the senior most leaders in the Telangana Congress Party, and was an AICC All India Congress Committee Secretary attached to the AICC General Secretary, in charge of Karnataka from July 2022 to August 2024. He was the Minister for Civil Supplies, Consumer Affairs, Legal Metrology, and Legislative Affairs in the United Government of Andhra Pradesh prior to that state being divided.
Patnam Mahender Reddy is an Indian politician from Telangana. He is a four time MLA and former minister in the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (2001–2022) and later Party name renamed as Bharat Rashtra Samithi government.
The Telangana protests 2004-2010 refers to the movements and agitations related to the Telangana movement that took place between the years 2004 and 2010. For the 2004 Assembly and Parliament elections, the Congress party and the TRS had an electoral alliance in the Telangana region to consider the demand of separate Telangana State. However, again in 2006, the then Chief Minister Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy categorically said that the state would remain united. This again resulted in statewide protests. In 2009, Union Minister of Home Affairs P. Chidambaram announced that the Indian government would start the process of forming a separate Telangana state, pending the introduction and passage of a separation resolution in the Andhra Pradesh assembly after an 11-day fast by K. Chandrashekar Rao. This again resulted in protests across both Andhra and Rayalseema as in a short time of the Home Minister's declaration, MLAs from the Coastal Andhra and Rayalaseema regions submitted their resignations in protest.
Somarapu Satyanarayana is an Indian politician and former Member of Legislative Assembly & TS RTC chairman in Telangana.
Godam Nagesh, is an Indian politician. He hails from the Gond people. G. Nagesh was elected to the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly in the 1994 election from the Boath seat, contesting as a Telugu Desam Party candidate. His father G. Rama Rao, former Minister for Tribal Welfare, was incumbent legislator of Boath at the time. G. Nagesh won the seat, obtaining 51,593 votes. He was amongst the youngest legislators in the Legislative Assembly at the time. G. Nagesh was named as Minister of State for Scheduled Tribes Welfare and Welfare of the Handicapped in the TDP state government after the election.
Balka Suman is an Indian politician. He is a former Member of Parliament in the 16th Lok Sabha from Peddapalli, Telangana. He won the 2014 Indian general election being a Bharat Rashtra Samithi candidate. He has been elected as an MLA from Chennur constituency in 2018 Telangana Legislative Assembly election.
The Indian state of Telangana was founded in 2014. Its territory had formerly been part of Andhra Pradesh. The Telangana movement was instrumental in the creation of the new state, and Bharat Rashtra Samithi, a party which led the Telangana movement after 2001, formed the government in the Telangana Legislative Assembly under its leader K. Chandrashekar Rao as the 1st Chief Minister of the state. The political landscape of Telangana is dominated by the Indian National Congress and the Bharat Rashtra Samithi, with the Bharatiya Janata Party and the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen being other significant forces.
Tula Uma is an Indian politician from Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) from the state of Telangana. She is the first woman ZP chairperson of Karimnagar District and the state mahila president of the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS), a state party in India. She is a ZPTC from the Kathalapur mandal of Karimnagar District, Telangana.
Enugala Peddi Reddy is an Indian politician. He was elected to the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly from Huzurabad in the 1994 and 1999 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election as a member of the Telugu Desam Party. He was sworn in as Minister of State in N. Chandrababu Naidu cabinet from October 1999 to May 2004.
Gellu Srinivas Yadav is an Indian Politician from Bharat Rashtra Samithi. He is currently the state president of the student wing of the Bharat Rashtra Samithi.
Sardar Ravinder Singh is an Indian politician. He served as the mayor of Karimnagar Municipal Corporation from July 2014 to 2019. Ravinder Singh quit TRS party and is contested MLC elections as an Independent candidate from Karimnagar Local Authorities Constituency.
Budida Bikshamaiah Goud is an Indian politician. He was an MLA in Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly from Alair assembly constituency.
Prem Singh Rathore is an Indian politician from Hyderabad, Telangana. He is a BJP member who formerly represented Goshamahal Assembly constituency (Maharajgunj) in the Telangana Legislative Assembly, representing as a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA earlier in his career as of 24 April 2024, he was appointed as Hyderabad Lok Sabha Co-ordinator (in-charge) and other surrounding constituencies.
