Within a day of six legislative council members (MLCs) of the Bharat Rashtra Samithi shifting their loyalties to the Congress party, senior BRS MLA from Gadwal assembly constituency Bandla Krishna Mohan Reddy joined Congress on Saturday.
Krishna Mohan Reddy came to the camp office of Revanth Reddy and joined the Congress formally in the presence of senior Congress leaders including Jupalli Krishna Rao, Ponguleti Srinivas Reddy and Vem Narender Reddy.
He is the seventh BRS MLA to join Congress, bringing down the number of BRS MLAs to 31. Besides Bandla Krishna Mohan Reddy, BRS MLAs Yadaiah (Chevella), Pocharam Srinivas Reddy (Banswada) and Sanjay Kumar (Jagtial), Danam Nagender ( Khairatabad), Kadiam Srihari (Station Ghanpur) and Tellam Venkat Rao (Bhadrachalam) had joined the Congress.
According to the Congress sources, at least seven more BRS MLAs are expected to join the Congress in the next few days and three of them are ready to jump the fence by Monday.
They are: Maheshwaram MLA Sabita Indra Reddy, Rajendranagar MLA V Prakash Goud and Patancheru MLA G Mahipal Reddy.
These three MLAs abstained from the meeting of Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation council meeting, despite the BRS leadership giving them strict instructions to attend the meeting.
These three MLAs also did not attend the BRS state-level meeting held at Telangana Bhavan on Friday.
Apart from them, five other MLAs – Arekapudi Gandhi (Serilingampalli), Madhavaram Krishna Rao (Kukatpalli), Bandari Lakshma Reddy (Uppal), Marri Rajasekhar Reddy (Malkajgiri), K P Vivekananda Goud (Qutbulapur) also did not attend the BRS meeting.
It is not immediately known whether they have decided to quit the BRS to join the Congress or have any other plan of action.
