Hyderabad: In a boost to the Congress in Kodad, four-time MLA V> Chandar Rao and about 1,000 second rung BRS leaders joined the Congress in the presence of Nalgonda MP N.Uttam Kumar Reddy on Sunday. His wife Padmavathi Reddy has been contesting from Kodad and had won in 2014.
The BRS leaders who joined the Congress include former DCCB chairman Bura Pulla Reddy, market committee chairman Mahbub Jani who contested as MLA.
They were angry that the BRS had retained Bollam Mallaiah Yadav, who had won by a small margin in 2018, ignoring their demand for a change.
Uttam Kumar Reddy expressed the confidence that the Congress would win with a majority of over 50,000 votes in Kodad.
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