Yadav and Das worked as ministers in erstwhile Andhra Pradesh, quit the party and joined the BJP in Hyderabad on Saturday, 30 September.
Published Sep 30, 2023 | 7:25 PM ⚊ Updated Sep 30, 2023 | 7:25 PM
Former BRS Ministers C Krishna Yadav and J Chittaranjan Das joining BJP. (kishanreddybjp/ X)
A few days after sitting BRS MLA Mynampally Hanumantha Rao and his son Rohit joined the Congress, two more BRS senior leaders, C Krishna Yadav and J Chittaranjan Das, who were ministers in the erstwhile Andhra Pradesh, quit the party and joined the BJP in Hyderabad on Saturday, 30 September.
Yadav and Das joined the BJP in the presence of Union Tourism Minister and Telangana BJP state president G Kishan Reddy, MLA Etala Rajender, and other senior leaders at the party’s state headquarters in Nampally.
Apart from the two former ministers, Sirpur ZPTC Rekha Satyanarayana, Bandala Satyanarayana, a few sarpanches and MPTCs joined the BJP.
Welcoming the two former ministers, Kishan Reddy said Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao was unable to digest the fact that emerged in the poll surveys that several of his cabinet ministers and the majority of his MLAs would suffer defeat in the year-end Assembly elections.
No major development took place during the nine-year BRS rule in the state.
However, the Union government led by the BJP spent ₹9 lakh crore for the development of Telangana since 2014, he said.
“It is confirmed that the family of Chandrashekhar Rao would confine to the farmhouse 90 days after completion of elections as they are losing the elections and the countdown has already started for them,” he said, while asking the people whether the state wants a chief minister who stays away from the development activities.
The people are observing the tactics of the chief minister and they will teach a fitting lesson to him in the next elections. “If he (KCR) is unable to attend, he can sit at home happily instead of making remarks against the BJP unnecessarily,” he said.
ఇవాళ నాంపల్లి బీజేపీ రాష్ట్ర కార్యాలయంలో వివిధ పార్టీలకు చెందిన మాజీ మంత్రులు కృష్ణ యాదవ్, చిత్తరాంజన్ దాస్ గారు, జడ్పీటీసీ రేఖ సత్యనారాయణ గారు, బండల రామచంద్ర రెడ్డి గారితో పాటు పలువురు ప్రాంతాల సర్పంచులు, ఎంపీటీసీలు బీజేపీ లో చేరిన సందర్భంగా వారిని కండువా కప్పి పార్టీలోకి… pic.twitter.com/bmodkw7Ejb
— G Kishan Reddy (@kishanreddybjp) September 30, 2023
Yadav was a minister during the TDP rule in the united Andhra Pradesh from 1999 to 2001. He also served as the government whip in Andhra Pradesh in 1995. He was first elected as an MLA in 1994.
While working as a newspaper delivery boy, Yadav entered politics and became a corporator of the then Municipal Corporation of Hyderabad from 1986 to 1991.
However, Yadav was arrested in September 2003 by the Maharashtra police for his alleged involvement in a multi-crore stamp paper scam. In December 2006, Yadav was released from the Yerwada prison in Pune.
While in 2007, a court in Pune revoked the provisions of the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act, invoked against him.
In November 2012, Yadav rejoined the TDP after staying away from the party for several years. After the formation of Telangana state, he joined the BRS.
After the TDP returned to power in 1999, Yadav, became the Labour Minister in N Chandrababu Naidu’s cabinet. He was in the cabinet till 2001. He won the Himayathnagar Assembly constituency in 1994 and 1999.
Former Congress Minister Chittaranjan Das defeated the TDP founder and former chief minister, late NT Rama Rao, by a margin of 3,568 votes in the 1989 elections.
Das was elected from the same Kalwakurthy constituency in the 1985 elections too. He was a minister during the Congress regime.
He decided to join the BJP after the BRS denied him a ticket to contest the upcoming Assembly elections.
