Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) announced Eatala Rajender as its candidate to contest the Lok Sabha elections in Telangana . At present, the BJP has four sitting MPs, but the party retained only three MPs for the second successive term . Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) MP BB Patil has been given the ticket from his Zaheerabad constituency . Two other former BRS MPs – Konda Vishweshwar