Hyderabad:
Rahul Gandhi wants to save the Constitution but his own party is ignoring it by poaching BRS lawmakers, claims BRS leader KT Rama Rao, ahead of key local body polls in Telangana. The BRS has been hit by a series of defections.
KT Rama Rao, popularly known as KTR, mocked the Congress and pointed out that the state Congress chief has hinted at inducting more BRS MLAs after the Makar Sankranti festival. Rahul Gandhi is expected to participate in a Samvidhan Bachao rally in Hyderabad in the last week of January along with party president Mallikarjun Kharge.
“Samvidhan Bachao (Save the Constitution) Rally by RG in Hyderabad PCC president says Congress will ignore same Constitution and induct more BRS MLAs. What a great way to save the Constitution @RahulGandhi Ji,” KTR posted on
The KCR-led BRS had won 39 of the 119 Assembly constituencies in the elections held last year, while the Congress came to power with 64 seats. A total of ten MLAs defected from the BRS to the Congress after the state elections.
On Sunday, there was an ugly public spat between Huzurabad MLA Padi Kaushik Reddy and Jagtial MLA Dr. Sanjay Kumar during a review meeting in Karimnagar. Both were elected on the BRS party ticket in November 2023. Reddy asked Sanjay Kumar which party he represented as the latter was one of the 10 BRS MLAs who had switched to Congress without resigning as BRS legislator.
“Ask him to resign and then talk. It is a handout from KCR that he became an MLA. Not only him, even the other ten MLAs should resign. We will not allow them to go around without doing that,” said Padi Kaushik Reddy. , BRS MLA.
Appreciating Kaushik Reddy's move to confront the defectors, KTR said he feels sorry for the defectors as Congress does not have the courage to own them and they themselves cannot say which party they belong to.
