In the wake of the Jubilee Hills constituency by-election in Hyderabad, several MIM and other party leaders joined the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) in the presence of BRS working president K.T. Rama Rao at Telangana Bhavan. KTR welcomed them by draping pink scarves and said that people desire to see former Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao return to power.