Veteran Congress leader from Telangana Mary Shashidhar Reddy joined BJP. (file)
New Delhi:
Telangana’s veteran Congress leader Marri Shashidhar Reddy on Friday joined the BJP and accused his former party of failing to stop the Telangana Rashtra Samithi’s alleged misrule in the state.
Mr Reddy recently quit the Congress, days after he was expelled following a meeting with Union Home Minister Amit Shah in the national capital.
Union ministers Sarbananda Sonowal and G Kishan Reddy were present at the BJP headquarters here when Reddy joined the party.
Accusing the TRS of running the “most corrupt” government, he said, “Congress has completely failed to stop what is happening in Telangana.”
He said it is “Telangana first versus family first” in the state and the BJP can only show the TRS “in its place”.
Mr Sonowal said Mr Reddy’s induction would strengthen the BJP in Telangana and end the “family rule” of the TRS in the state.
He insisted that the next government in the state would be formed by the BJP.
Shashidhar Reddy, 73, is the son of late Congress chief minister Marri Channa Reddy of undivided Andhra Pradesh.
He has been a four-time MLA from Sanathnagar, was a Congress minister in undivided Andhra Pradesh in 1993, and served as the vice-chairman of the National Disaster Management Authority.
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