Friends and foes in Telangana election 2023: Which political parties support BJP, Congress and BRS

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1. Support for Congress: The Telangana Jana Samithi (TJS) party has extended its "unconditional support to the Congress" in the upcoming state assembly elections, the Congress was quoted by ANI as saying. Besides, the president of YSR Telangana Party, YS Sharmila Reddy, also said on Friday, November 3, that her party will support the Congress in the Telangana Assembly election.

"The YSRTP will not contest this election," she was quoted by ANI as saying. ALSO READ: Telangana polls 2023: ‘Will put back in your pocket, what CM KCR looted,’ Rahul Gandhi promises ahead of elections In the 2018 Telangana polls, the Congress had announced a pre-poll alliance of four parties. The Congress-led People's Front (Praja Kutami) included the Telugu Desam Party (TDP), the Communist Party of India (CPI) and the Telangana Jana Samithi (TJS).

2. The Telangana unit of the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) decided not to contest the November 30 assembly polls. TDP sources cited the recent arrest of party chief N Chandrababu Naidu as the reason for their absence.

The TDP is yet to voice its support for any other party in the fray. 3. The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI(M)) called off its proposed alliance with the Congress on November 2 and announced a list of 17 constituencies it will contest from in the November 30 Telangana Assembly elections, the News Minute reported on Thursday. The report added that the decision to call off the alliance with the Congress came after the latter failed to give the CPI(M) two seats out of a list of five that it had suggested.

4. Amid this, CPI(M) leaders were quoted by the News Minute as saying that if the Communist Party of India (CPI) is willing, they will contest the polls together. 5. The BJP and the Jana