
As many as 20 turncoats contested the Lok Sabha polls in Telangana and 13 in Andhra Pradesh, with at least 19 of them being fielded by the BJP-led NDA – which had failed to win even a single seat in AP and won only four in Telangana in 2019. The prominent regional parties in the two states, the BRS in Telangana and the YSR Congress in Andhra, had also fielded four and five turncoats, respectively.