Hyderabad: BRS MLA Arekapudi Gandhi joined the Congress in Telangana on Saturday, taking the total number of opposition legislators who switched over to the ruling party to nine.
Gandhi, elected from Serilingampally here, was welcomed into the Congress fold by Chief Minister and PCC president A Revanth Reddy.
Along with Gandhi, BRS corporators in Hyderabad Nagender Yadav, Uppalapati Srikanth, Manjula Raghunath Reddy, Narne Srinivas also defected to the Congress.
He has been representing the Serlingampally constituency since 2014. Gandhi began his political career in the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) and later joined the BRS. He also served as the previous BRS government’s Whip in the Telangana Assembly.
