Congress in Telangana continued to face desertions ahead of Lok Sabha elections as one more MLA and a party functionary Sunday announced their decision to leave the party and join the ruling TRS.
Vanama Venkateswara Rao, representing Kothagudem, announced his support to the TRS president and Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao.
He becomes the eighth Congress lawmaker to shift sides, which had won 19 seats in the December 7 elections to the 119-member Telangana Assembly.
Separately, Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) SC cell chairman Arepalli Mohan joined TRS in the presence of TRS working president K T Rama Rao, TRS sources said.
Venkateswara Rao said he would quit the assembly membership "if necessary".
"All-round development of Kothagudem constituency is important to me. KCR ji has assured me to comprehensively develop it," he said in a statement.
TRS sources said the lawmaker met KCR at the TRS chief's farmhouse at Erravelli near Hyderabad.
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