BRS chief and former Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao expressed confidence that by elections are certain in all 10 assembly constituencies from where elected BRS MLAs defected to Congress. Moreover, he predicted that all defected MLAs will be defeated in bypolls.
Former Deputy Chief Minister Tatikonda Rajaiah met KCR at Erravalli Farmhouse on Tuesday. On this occasion, KCR asserted that the people of the respective constituencies will give a good response to the MLAs who have switched parties. Speaking to Tatikonda Rajaiah, KCR said that a by-election will also be held in Station Ghanpur.
KCR also predicted that the current Station Ghanpur MLA Kadiyam Srihari will be defeated in those by-polls and Tatikonda Rajaiah will win as the MLA. He expressed confidence that no one could stop Tatikonda Rajaiah’s victory. KCR made it clear that by-elections will be held not only in Ghanpur station but in all 10 seats.
The Telangana Assembly elections were held at the end of 2023. Kadiyam Srihari was elected as the BRS candidate from Ghanpur station for these elections. However, in this election, the Telangana voter voted for the Congress party. With this, the Congress party gained ground under the leadership of Revanth Reddy.
Later, CM Revanth Reddy launched Operation Akarsh. With this, many MPs and MLAs from the BRS party joined the Congress party. However, BRS party leader KCR wanted to field Kadiyam Srihari’s daughter Kadiyam Kavya as the Warangal candidate in the general elections. But, along with her father, she joined the Congress party.
With this, she contested as the Congress party candidate from the Warangal Lok Sabha seat and won. In this context, top leaders of the BRS party are also approaching the courts to take action against those who defected from the party.
On the other hand, 3 separate petitions filed seeking an order to Telangana Speaker Gaddam Prasad Kumar to disqualify 10 MLAs who won from BRS and joined the Congress have already been heard in the Supreme Court.
After that, they took the mantle of the Congress party in phases. There has been a war of words between the ruling Congress and the opposition BRS over the change of party by these MLAs.
