LS polls: BSP to contest two seats in T'gana as part of its tie-up with BRS
Hyderabad (PTI): The BSP will contest the Hyderabad and Nagarkurnool (SC) Lok Sabha seats, out of the total 17 constituencies in Telangana, as part of its alliance with the K Chandrasekhar Rao-led BRS.
A BRS release on Friday said Rao, also known as KCR, has allocated the two seats to the Bahujan Samaj Party.
BSP's Telangana unit president R S Praveen Kumar, formerly an IPS officer, would contest from Nagarkurnool constituency, a BSP release said.
The candidate from Hyderabad would be announced soon, it said.
Hyderabad is represented in the outgoing Lok Sabha by AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi.
The BRS and BSP on March 5 announced a pre-poll alliance in Telangana for the LS polls following talks between KCR and Praveen Kumar.
KCR had then said there is an ideological similarity between the two parties on various issues as the previous BRS government headed by him had implemented Dalit Bandhu and other schemes for the welfare of Dalits and others.
Claiming that secularism is in danger in the country due to the BJP, Praveen Kumar had said his party has decided to work together with BRS to safeguard Telangana from the BJP and also "Congress, which is becoming like the BJP".
The BRS has protected secularism, he said.
The Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) on March 13 said BSP Rajya Sabha member Ramji Gautam, Praveen Kumar and other party leaders held a meeting with KCR at the latter's residence here.
The BRS has so far announced its candidates from 11 Lok Sabha seats.
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Man arrested with Rs 2.54-crore heroin in Mumbai
Mumbai (PTI): Police have arrested a man and seized over 500 grams of heroin worth Rs 2.54 crore in the illicit market from him in Mumbai, officials said on Friday.
The police's Anti-Narcotics Cell (ANC) made the drug seizure in Santacruz in the western suburbs. The operation was conducted by the Kandivali unit of the ANC on Thursday as part of a special crackdown against drug trafficking in the area, they said.
Acting on specific inputs, an ANC team conducted a raid in Santacruz (East) and intercepted a man. During a search, the team recovered 508 grams of high-grade heroin from his possession, an official said.
The seized contraband, a highly addictive, opioid drug derived from morphine, is estimated to be worth Rs 2.54 crore in the international market, he informed.
Following the seizure, a case was registered against the man under relevant sections of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, 1985, and he was formally placed under arrest in the early hours of Friday.
The police are currently investigating the source of the drug and trying to identify the intended recipients of the consignment, he said.
