The beleaguered YSR Congress party in Andhra Pradesh received yet another setback on Tuesday, when its Rajya Sabha member and popular Backward Classes leader Ryaga Krishnaiah resigned from his MP seat.
A parliamentary gazette notification said in the evening that Krishnaiah submitted his resignation from the Rajya Sabha member to chairman Jagdeep Dhankar and his resignation was accepted with effect from Monday.
Krishnaiah is the third Rajya Sabha member of the YSRCP to resign from his membership in the last one month.
On August 29, two other senior members Mopidevi Venkataramana and Beeda Mastan Rao also resigned from the party as well as their MP seats.
Krishnaiah, however, has not yet resigned from the YSRCP.
He told the reporters in New Delhi that he had taken the decision after discussing with the representatives of over 100 BC organisations.
Sources, however, said he is likely to join the Bharatiya Janata Party. The other two MPs – Venkataramana and Mastan Rao declared that they would join the ruling Telugu Desam Party.
With the resignation of Krishnaiah, the strength of YSRCP in Rajya Sabha has come down from 11 to 8.
Krishnaiah was nominated to Rajya Sabha in June 2022 and his term would expire in 2028.
Krishnaiah, who is the president of National OBCs Welfare Association, entered electoral politics in 2014.
He was elected as MLA representing L B Nagar constituency in 2014 from the TDP. He, however, had not been active in the TDP politics.
In 2022, he joined the YSR Congress party in Andhra Pradesh and was nominated to Rajya Sabha.
