Telangana Election: Ex- MLA Vishnuvardhan Reddy says he'll join BRS after being denied Congress ticket

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P Vishnuvardhan Reddy is a senior Congress leader and former MLA from Khairatabad and Jubilee Hills. He was quoted by news agency ANI as saying on Monday, "I never imagined that the Congress would come to this state. The Congress will soon have to sell off the Gandhi Bhavan.

We (Reddy and his followers) will join the BRS soon." A post shared by P Vishnuvardhan Reddy (@p_vishnuvardhan_reddy) Telangana Minister Harish Rao and other BRS leaders visited Reddy's residence in Jubilee Hills on Monday. Speaking to media persons after the meeting, Harish Rao said the BRS will give a "respectable position" to Vishnuvardhan Reddy. ALSO READ: RS MP Kotha Prabhakar Reddy stabbed while campaigning in poll-bound Telangana, out of danger "The Congress leaders say P Janardhan Reddy (Vishnuvardhan's father) means the Congress and the Congress means PJR.

He worked hard for the Congress, but the party has now been taken over by a few gangs that are meting out grave injustice to sincere and hard-working members like him," Rao was quoted as saying. "We will give a respectable position to Vishnuvardhan (in the BRS)," he added, saying that Nagam Janardhan Reddy also resigned from the Congress on Sunday, October 29, and joined the BRS. "PJR's son Vishnu is also set to join the BRS.

We'll heartily welcome him into our party," Harish Rao said. The Congress has former captain of the Indian Men's Cricket team Mohammad Azharuddin from the Jubilee Hills assembly constituency. The Congress has also recieved the support of the Telangana Jana Samithi in the battle against the ruling BRS in the assembly polls.