8th Congress Lawmaker Quits To Join KCRs Party

Preeti Sigh 4263 17 Mar, 2019

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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.