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Thirty-five leaders from the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) in Telangana joined the Congress party on Monday, June 26. The list included former Member of Parliament Ponguleti Srinivas Reddy and former Minister Jupally Krishna Rao. The event took place in the presence of All India Congress Committee chief Mallikarjun Kharge and Rahul Gandhi, who welcomed the new members into their fold. Additionally, the meeting was attended by Congress General Secretary in-charge of Organisation KC Venugopal, and the head of the party’s Telangana unit A Revanth Reddy. Ponguleti Srinivas Reddy and Jupally Krishna Rao had been suspended from the BRS in April 2023 on grounds of alleged anti-party activities.
The development has come months ahead of the upcoming 2023 Assembly elections. Describing the current scenario as a significant shift, Congress leaders said that "winds of change" are sweeping across 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,” the Twitter handle of Telangana Congress wrote. While Ponguleti 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.
Winds of change are sweeping through Telangana.
— Telangana Congress (@INCTelangana) June 26, 2023
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… pic.twitter.com/mkgd6ToL6k
In addition to Ponguleti Srinivas Reddy and Jupally Krishna Rao, several other notable leaders have joined the Congress party. The list includes Gurnath Reddy, a six-time former MLA, Koram Kanakaiah, a former MLA and Zilla Parishad Chairman, Payam Venkateshwarlu, a former MLA, Muvva Vijaya Babu, former District Cooperative Central Bank (DCCB) chairman, Thulluri Bramhaiah, the current DCCB Chairman, Pidamarthi Ravi, former chairman of SC Corporation, Borra Rajshekhar, the Vice Chairperson of Markfed state, and S Jaipal, Municipal Chairperson, Warya, and Mandal Praja Parishad Chairman and others.
