Gudur: CM Revanth Reddy's BJP, BRS Merger Talk not Befitting him

Hyderabad: BJP state committee member Gudur Narayana Reddy on Saturday made it clear that Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy’s comments on the merger of the BRS with BJP were below the level of his office.

In a media statement, Narayan Reddy said that it was the Congress which had been inducting BRS MLAs; 10 of them had joined the Congress. Media reports suggest that six more are going to join soon, he said. He said that the BRS MLAs were joining the ruling party as they were being offered crores of rupees and promised favours.

“Show me one example whether any BRS MLA joined the BJP in the recent past. While you have been continuing the spree of inductions, how can you blame the BJP for party hopping,” Narayan Reddy asked.

Narayana Reddy demanded that the Chief Minister make public the names of BRS MLAs and leaders who had been meeting him every day. He alleged that Khairatabad MLA D. Nagendar was given the party ticket to contest the Parliament elections even though he did not resign from the BRS. He said that several zilla parishads were clinched by the Congress by inducting the chairpersons. The Congress has taken over municipalities and municipal corporations by encouraging defection of corporators.

The BJP leader said that with such a history the Chief Minister must not speak of BRS’s merger with the BJP. Narayan Reddy said the BJP had made it clear that any legislator or leader joining the party must first resign their respective offices and parties. He said the BJP would maintain high political moral standards which it has been practicing for four decades.