Warangal, Karimnagar BRS leaders trooping into Congress post Vijayabheri
Warangal / Karimnagar: If Congress’ six guarantees became a lure, the Vijayabheri bus yatra involving top AICC leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi has prodded top and second-rung BRS leaders to quit the ruling party and join Congress in both the erstwhile Warangal and Karimnagar districts.
In Jayashankar Bhupalpally district, former Ghanpur mandal PACS chairman T. Bhaskar Rao, along with sarpanches, former MPTC B. Sailu Goud and former deputy sarpanch G. Mahendar of Sultanpur village have joined the Congress in presence of Bhupalpally assembly segment MLA candidate Gandra Satyanarayana.
Speaking on the occasion, Satyanarayana alleged that since BRS has deceived people with fake promises during its two terms, not only people, even ruling party leaders are also not believing BRS and are showing keen interest in joining the Congress party.
In Warangal district, 20 BRS women wing leaders joined the Congress under the leadership of 28th division Congress party president K. Sampath in the presence of former MLC Konda Muralidhar Rao in Warangal East assembly segment.
In Peddapalli district, three BRS corporators of Ramagundam Municipal Corporation – Shankar Naik of 15th division, Saleem Begum of 21st division and P. Yellaiah of 46th division – apart from Penchala Tirupathi, one of the main followers of BRS party MLA Chander Patel, have joined the Congress in presence of the Peddapalli DCC president and MLA candidate from Ramagundam Raj Tagore Makkan Singh.
There is a good response among people regarding the six guarantees given by Congress, said Makkan Singh. Sensing the changing wind, several leaders of ruling BRS are leaving their party and joining Congress party, he stated.
Boggu Gani Karmika Sangam senior leaders N. Satyanarayana Reddy and K. Mohan have joined the Congress party in presence of Manthani MLA and manifesto committee chairman D. Sridhar Babu in Peddapalli district.
BRS party Dhulikatta single window chairman Pulluri Venu Gopal Rao, directors M. Srinivas Rao and K. Anjaiah, former Venkatraopally village sarpanch D. Shyam Sunder, ward members D. Manohar Rao and Rajeshwar Rao, and former deputy sarpanch of Kichulatapally village K. Srinivas have joined the Congress party in presence of MLA candidate from Peddapalli assembly segment Ch. Vijaya Ramana Rao.
In Dharmapuri assembly segment of Jagtial district, around 250 youth from Dharmaram mandal led by BRS youth president Bonagiri Srinivas joined Congress under the leadership of DCC president and Dharmapuri assembly segment MLA candidate Adluri Laxman.
