In another setback to the Bharat Rashtra Samiti (BRS) in Telangana, the party’s MLA from Gadwal, Bandla Krishna Mohan Reddy, joined the ruling Congress on Saturday.
He is the seventh BRS MLA to join the Congress after the party came to power in November last year.
Krishna Mohan Reddy joined the Congress in the presence of Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy, who is also the Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee president.
In the Assembly elections held last year, the BRS had won 39 of 119 seats, while the Congress won 64.
It rose to 65 after BRS MLA from Secunderabad Cantonment, G Lasya Nanditha, died in a road accident on February 23, and the Congress won the bypoll.
In another setback to the Bharat Rashtra Samiti (BRS) in Telangana, the party’s MLA from Gadwal, Bandla Krishna Mohan Reddy, joined the ruling Congress on Saturday.
He is the seventh BRS MLA to join the Congress after the party came to power in November last year. Krishna Mohan Reddy joined the Congress in the presence of Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy, who is also the Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee president. In the Assembly elections held last year, the BRS had won 39 of 119 seats, while the Congress won 64. It rose to 65 after BRS MLA from Secunderabad Cantonment, G Lasya Nanditha, died in a road accident on February 23, and the Congress won the bypoll.
