Hyderabad: Ahead of the Legislative Council elections in Telangana, the ruling TRS and the Congress were engaged in a bitter war of words on Monday over two opposition party MLAs deciding to join the TRS.
A day after the Congress announced that it would wage a full-scale Constitutional battle against Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao, accusing him of “engineering” the defection of two party MLAs, TRS working president K T Rama Rao hit back, asking whether the instances of other public representatives joining the Congress was also a “purchase”.
TRS working president K T Rama Rao, who responded to the Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) president N Uttam Kumar Reddy’s allegation that the TRS has “purchased” two of its MLAs, referred to various instances of lawmakers joining the Congress.
Two Congress MLAs — Rega Kantha Rao (Pinapaka) and Atram Sakku (Asifabad) — announced on Saturday night they had decided to join the ruling TRS in the interest of welfare and development of STs, especially Adivasis.
The switch-over of the two Congress MLAs to the TRS is seen as a setback to the Congress for the March 12 Legislative Council elections (MLAs quota). (PTI)
