Several lawmakers meet KCR at his Erravelli farmhouse amid speculation of more defections

Several Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) legislators and party leaders met party president and former chief minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao at his Erravelli farmhouse in Siddipet district on Tuesday.

The lawmakers’ meeting with the party chief assumes some political significance as it comes at a time when speculation is rife that other party lawmakers are likely to cross the barrier into the ruling Congress. After the Assembly elections, Danam Nagender, Kadiyam Srihari, Dr. Tellam Venkata Rao, Pocharam Srinivas Reddy and Dr. M. Sanjay elected on the BRS ticket defected to the ruling party.

With the defection of five MLAs and the defeat of the party candidate in the by-election held in the Secunderabad Cantonment Assembly constituency as well as in the Lok Sabha elections, the BRS strength fell to 33 against 39 that he won in the November 2023 elections.

Karimnagar MP Gangula Kamalakar, along with several BRS companies of the Karimnagar Municipal Corporation, met Mr. Chandrasekhar Rao a few days ago, in the backdrop of media reports that Mr. Kamalakar was planning to make defected to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). ) with several companies.

On Tuesday, party MPs T. Harish Rao, Vemula Prashanth Reddy, KP Vivekanand, Arekapudi Gandhi, Maganti Gopinath, Madhavaram Krishna Rao, Mutha Gopal, T. Prakash Goud, MLCs Sheri Subhash Reddy and Dande Vittal, former MP Jogu Ramanna and several others. appealed to KCR.