Blow To BRS As 35 Leaders From Telangana Join Congress

In a blow to K Chandrasekhar Rao's BRS, 35 leaders from his party joined Congress on Monday.

Former MP Ponguleti Srinivas Reddy and former Telangana minister Jupally Krishna Rao and other BRS leaders joined Congress in the presence of party president Mallikarjun Kharge and Rahul Gandhi at the AICC headquarters in Delhi.

After meeting the central leadership, the BRS leaders announced at a press conference that they are joining the Congress. They will later address a public rally in Khammam, Telangana expected to be held in the first week of July with the likely presence of AICC general secretary Priyanka Gandhi.

While Reddy is a former Lok Sabha MP from Khammam, Krishna Rao is a former Andhra Pradesh and Telangana minister and has been an MLA five times.

Later, in a tweet, the Congress wrote, "Winds of change are sweeping through Telangana. In a big boost to the Congress party's prospects, more and more people are aligning with us to take the message of love and prosperity forward." "Today, senior leaders from Telangana joined the Congress party in the presence of Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge, former Congress President Rahul Gandhi, General Secy (Org.) K C Venugopal, AICC Telangana Incharge Manikrao Thakre, Telangana PCC President Vevanth Reddy and other senior leaders at AICC HQ, New Delhi," the party said.

"This winds of change started with 'Bharat Jodo Yatra', the effect of which you saw in Karnataka. Today, many important leaders of Telangana are joining Congress party and all of them have held long talks after meeting top leaders of the party," said AICC leader Pawan Khera at a press conference.

"Many important leaders of Telangana joined our party today. Together we will tell the people of Telangana how BJP and BRS are cheating them. I thank all these senior leaders from the bottom of my heart," Telangana Congress chief A Revanth Reddy said.

Here Is The List Of Leaders Who Quit BRS.

Jupally Krishna Rao
Gurnath Reddy
Kuchukulla Rajesh Reddy
Tadiparthi Sai Charan Reddy
Megha Reddy Tudi
Kura Anna Kistappa
Muddappa Deshmukh
Jupally Arun
Surya Prathap Goud
Kalyan Kumar Kotha
Dandu Narsimha
Gopusetti Sridhar
Surya
Ponguleti Srinivasa Reddy
Koram Karakaiah
Payam Venkateshwaralu
Muvva Vijaya Baby
Tellam Venkata Rao
Pidamarthi Ravi
Jare Adhi Narayana
Banoth Vijaya
Thulluri Bramhaiah
Maddineni Swarna Kumari
Kota Rambabu
Ukanti Gopala Rai
Dr Raja Ramesh
Jupali Ramesh
Alluri Venkateshwara Reddy
Hanumandh Jhasni Reddy
Raghunatha Yadav
Ragavendra Reddy
Kotha Manohar Reddy
Suthagani Jaipal

Telangana will go for assembly polls towards the end of the year and KCR has been the central figure in the state since it was carved out of Andhra Pradesh in 2014.

In 2018 polls, his party has emerged victorious in 88 seats in 119-member Assembly with a vote share of 46.87 per cent.