Telangana BJP suspends vice president Yennam Srinivasa Reddy for “anti-party” activities

Responding to the suspension order, Srinivasa Reddy said he was not served any notice. “Even those facing the gallows would be asked for his last wish. I was not contacted. I was not even intimated about the charges. It looks as though the action was taken against me based on what someone has told the party leadership,” he told the South First, indicating a possible conspiracy to hound him out of the party.

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He was one of the seven vice-presidents appointed in 2020 by the then Telangana BJP president Bandi Sanjay Kumar. He was given the responsibility of overseeing the party affairs in Mahbubnagar, Nagarkurnool, and Wanaparthy districts.

Srinivasa Reddy did not disclose his future course of action. When asked if he was planning to join the Congress, he said it was a figment of media’s imagination. He, however, said that he would disclose everything at a media conference on Tuesday, 5 September, in Hyderabad.

It has been speculated that he might join the Congress and contest from Mahbubnagar against Excise Minister V Srinivasa Goud.

In a four-cornered contest, Srinviasa Reddy won a byelection to the Assembly from Mahbubnagar in 2012 during the peak of the Telangana movement. His three opponents then were: S Prakash (Congress), P Chandrasekhar (TDP), and Syed Ibrahim (TRS, now BRS).