Hyderabad, July 15 -- The Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) here is unlikely to let any of its former MLAs who defected to the ruling Congress return back. About 10 MLAs had defected after the BRS, but the move backfired legally in court due to which many of them on record denying they had shifted parties. BRS supremo, according to highly placed sources, is miffed with the defectors, given that some of them were very senior leaders who were long-term associated with the party.

Out of the defected MLAs, only one of them - Patancheru MLA Mahipal Reddy - has been taken back. "Mahipal Reddy was the only exception as he told us he was blackmailed by the Congress and Revanth Reddy with false cases. KCR sir will not accept anyone else," said a senio...