Youth from Kodad’s 18th ward quit other parties and joined the BRS on Thursday, while former Kodad MLA Bollam Mallaiah Yadav declared that voters tired of Congress want K. Chandrashekar Rao back at the helm. The induction took place in the 18th ward of Kodad town in Nalgonda district, and it came with a clear political message aimed at the Congress government.

Nine young men, including Vinay, Meesala Nani, Ramu, Satish, Venu, Manikantha, Rakesh, Pavan and Naveen, left their previous parties and took up BRS membership. Yadav welcomed each of them personally and draped them in the party’s pink scarves, a ritual that signals full entry into the fold.

Speaking at the event, Yadav did not hold back on the message he wanted to carry out of Kodad.

People want KCR’s leadership once again.

He framed the defections as a verdict on Congress. According to Yadav, the Congress party’s anti-people policies have cost it credibility at the mandal and village levels. He argued that the people are now looking for a party that understands their aspirations, and he insisted that the BRS is the only party that has truly understood and implemented what Telangana’s people wanted.

The attack was built around KCR’s decade in power. Yadav said Telangana made progress across every sector during KCR’s ten years as chief minister. He described the BRS as a party that stood by farmers, the poor, women and youth, and he presented that record as the benchmark against which the present government should be judged.

The sharpest charge came on the question of money. Yadav claimed that under the Congress administration, funds for development and welfare schemes have begun to dry up. He did not provide figures in the remarks reported, but he made the accusation central to his pitch to residents who have been watching how the state’s welfare promises are being delivered.

He also made a bold prediction. Yadav said the people will once again look to KCR’s leadership in the coming days, and he expressed confidence that a BRS government would come back to power in Telangana. Such statements are standard fare in opposition politics, but coming from a former MLA at a ward-level event, they show how the party is trying to rebuild momentum from the grassroots.

The immediate test is the Khammam-Nalgonda-Warangal MLC election. Telangana’s voters in these three districts are heading to polls for a Legislative Council seat, and this is where Yadav’s appeal to youth takes on a concrete form. He called on young people to take part enthusiastically in the election and to help elect the BRS-backed candidate, Enugula Rakesh Reddy, by the highest possible majority. For the BRS, a strong result in a constituency spanning these districts would be a visible sign that its grassroots push is working.

The political curiosity here is obvious. Ward-level defections are often small in numbers, but they carry weight when they are used to argue that a wider mood is shifting. Yadav’s remarks put the spotlight on two questions that will shape the state’s political debate: whether Congress can win back trust in villages and mandals, and whether KCR’s decade in power remains a winning argument with voters who are now judging the present government on its own record.

The event itself was modest in scale, with a handful of youth joining one party in one ward. Yet it reflects the leadership debate that is playing out across Telangana ahead of the MLC polls. Whether those defections turn into votes will become clear once the campaign reaches its final stretch.