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BRS MLA and former Speaker Pocharam Srinivas Reddy defects to Congress

BRS MLA and former Speaker Pocharam Srinivas Reddy defects to Congress

The Hindu
Friday, June 21, 2024 7:26 AM GMT

BRS MLA from Banswada Pocharam Srinivas Reddy joins Congress in Telangana

Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy along with his cabinet colleague Ponguleti Srinivasa Reddy called on Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) MLA from Banswada, Pocharam Srinivas Reddy, at his residence and invited him to join the party.

The MLA Srinivas Reddy later informed the media that he had accepted the invitation to join the Congress. He said he watched the developments keenly after Mr. Revanth Reddy took over as the Chief Minister and hailed the pro-farmer policies. “As I come from the farmers’ family and realising the Government’s commitment, I decided to join the Congress,” he said.

Mr. Srinivas Reddy, who was the Speaker from 2018 to 2023 in the BRS government and also the Agriculture Minister from 2014 to 2018, justified his decision to join the Congress stating that there were several reasons. He said he had joined the Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS, now BRS) from the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) for various reasons. He reminded that he had started his political career as a Congressman and was returning to it.

Mr. Srinivas Reddy, one of the senior politicians of Telangana, started his political career with the Congress in 1976 and later joined the TDP in 1984. He served as a Cabinet Minister in the Chandrababu Naidu government in the combined Andhra Pradesh managing the portfolios of Mines and Geology and later Panchayat Raj.

He joined the TRS in 2011 at the peak of the Telangana movement resigning as a TDP MLA. He won from the Banswada Constituency 1994, 1999, 2009, 2014, 2018 and 2023.

He is the fourth BRS MLA to have joined the Congress after Danam Nagender,Tellam Venkat Rao and Kadiyam Srihari.

Meanwhile, Khairatabad MLA Danam Nagender, who shifted his loyalties from BRS to Congress before the Parliament elections, said that about 20 BRS MLAs would soon join the Congress. He claimed that the BRS will become vacant in Greater Hyderabad with all the BRS MLAs set to join the Congress soon.

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