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Two more BRS lawmakers meet Revanth Reddy, may join Cong before LS polls

Dayakar has been contemplating joining the Congress ever since the BRS nominated Kadiayam Kavya to contest from the Warangal Lok Sabha constituency.

ByRaj Rayasam

Published Mar 16, 2024 | 8:32 AM ⚊UpdatedMar 16, 2024 | 8:32 AM

Warangal MP P Dayakar met Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy on Friday. (Wikimedia Commons)

Delivering yet another blow to the BRS in Telangana, two more lawmakers are planning to leave the party and join the Congress.

The BRS has been witnessing a steady stream of leaders leaving for greener pastures ever since it lost to the Congress in the 30 November Assembly election.

The lawmakers, MP P Dayakar from Warangal, and MLA D Nagender from Khairtabad, met the state Congress president and Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy on Friday, 15 March, apparently to prepare the ground for shifting loyalties.

Dayakar has been contemplating joining the Congress ever since BRS chief K Chandrashekar Rao nominated Kadiayam Kavya to contest from the Warangal (SC reserved) Lok Sabha constituency.

The MP, miffed over KCR’s decision, is hoping to contest from Warangal as a Congress candidate.

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‘Ghar wapsi’ for Nagender

Meanwhile, former minister and BRS sitting MLA from Khairtabad, Danam Nagender, also showed interest in joining the Congress.

He met the chief minister and reportedly expressed his willingness to return to the Congress.

For Nagender, joining the Congress would be like a redemption for his mistake of going astray. He was elected from the Asifnagar assembly constituency in 1994, 1999, and 2004.

In 2004, he left the Congress and successfully fought the election from Asifnagar on a TDP ticket.

But he resigned immediately after the Congress won the election. Nagender felt suffocated in the TDP since he had been till then criticising N Chandrababu Naidu.

On the advice of the late YS Rajasekhar Reddy, who became the chief minister of the state in 2004, Nagender gave up his Assembly membership. He contested the by-election on a Congress ticket and won.

After the delimitation of constituencies in 2009, Nagender contested and won from Khairatabad Assembly constituency. Rajasekhar Reddy who became the chief minister for a second term, took him in the cabinet and allotted him the Medical and Health portfolio. He lost the election from Khairatabad in 2014 to BJP’s Chintala Ramachandra Reddy.

After joining the BRS in 2018, he never seemed comfortable. Though he won on the BRS ticket for the second time from Khairatabad in 2023, he met the chief minister to clear the decks for his return to the Congress. Being a leader of the economically and politically prominent Munnuru Kapu community, he is likely to move up in the Congress hierarchy.

The political grapevine has been abuzz with a rumour that Nagender might be considered for the Secunderabad Lok Seat as Revanth Reddy wants to end the BJP’s dominance in the segment.

Edited by Majnu Babu.