Telangana: BRS suffers blow as 6 MLCs join Congess

Before becoming a member of the Congress, the six BRS members of legislative council (MLCs) — T Bhanu Prasad Rao, Baswaraj Saraiah, Dande Vittal, MS Prabhakar, Yegge Mallesham and Boggarapu Dayanand — met at a resort in Hyderabad round 11.30 pm on Thursday.

“At around 1 am [Friday], they went to the residence of Telangana Congress president and chief minister A Revanth Reddy, who [had] just returned from New Delhi, and expressed their interest in joining the party,” a Congress chief acquainted with the event stated.

The MLCs had been formally inducted into the Congress by Reddy at his residence within the presence of AICC in-charge of affairs in Telangana Deepa Dasmunsi, state income minister Ponguleti Srinivas Reddy and different senior occasion leaders.

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With the newest defections, the energy of the Congress within the 40-member legislative council is more likely to go as much as 10, whereas the BRS’s tally got here down from 25 to 19. There are 4 nominated MLCs, two members from AIMIM, one every from the BJP, PRTU, and one impartial, whereas two seats are vacant within the Upper House of the state legislature.

Earlier, six BRS MLAs — Danam Nagender, Kadiyam Srihari, Tellam Venkat Rao, Pocharam Srinivas Reddy, Dr Sanjay Kumar and Kale Yadaiah — had joined the Congress after the meeting polls final 12 months and hypothesis is rife that extra would swap sides to the ruling occasion within the coming days.

The BRS, which had been in energy for the reason that formation of the state in 2014, gained solely 39 of the full 119 meeting constituencies within the November 30 state polls, whereas Congress got here to energy successful 64 seats. Its quantity fell right down to 38, following the loss of life of G Lasya Nanditha, its MLA from Secunderabad Cantonment, died in a street accident in February. The Congress gained the bypoll to the meeting seat.

Later, the BRS tally got here down additional to 32 with the defection of its six MLAs to the Congress whereas the energy of the ruling occasion has gone as much as 71.

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BRS working president and former minister KT Rama Rao accused the Congress of engineering the defections from his occasion. Lashing out on the ruling occasion, KTR — because the BRS chief is popularly identified — reminded the Congress of its promise within the ballot manifesto that stated the occasion would amend the Tenth Schedule of Constitution to robotically disqualify the elected members who defect from one occasion to a different.

“@RahulGandhi is this how you are going to uphold the constitution? If you can’t make BRS MLAs resign, how would the nation trust that you were committed to Schedule 10 amendments as per Congress manifesto? Yeh Kaisa Nyay Patra Hain? (What kind of Nyay Patra is this?)” KTR posted on X.

He additional identified that BRS chief Okay Keshava Rao tendered his resignation from the Rajya Sabha after becoming a member of the Congress on Wednesday. “We welcome his decision. What about the BRS MLA who defected and contested Lok Sabha on Congress ticket? What about half a dozen other BRS MLAs who defected to Congress?” KTR stated on X.