Hyderabad, July 13 -- As Telangana inches closer to its next Assembly elections, political realignments are beginning to take shape, with the latest buzz in political circles concerns Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Malkajgiri MP Eatala Rajender, who is said to be unhappy in the party and looking for a way out. More intriguingly, some believe he could make his way back to the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS), the very party that sacked him in 2021 by order of its president, K Chandrasekhar Rao (KCR).

Eatala himself has said nothing on the matter, but a recent remark of his has done little to quiet the speculation. The MP, who once served as a BRS minister in the previous Telangana government, reportedly told a TV channel, "For me, Telangana is ...