Ahead of a bypoll in Telangana on November 3, former Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) MP Boora Narsaiah Goud, also a noted doctor, joined the BJP here on Wednesday.
The joining of a TRS MP in the BJP has happened after the Congress MLA from Munugode Assembly K. Rajagopal Reddy also crossed over to the saffron party.
The prestigious bypoll contest is scheduled in Munugode assembly on November 3 with Reddy as the BJP candidate against the TRS’ K Prabhakar Reddy. Assembly polls are slated in the state next year.
Goud joined the BJP in the presence of Union Ministers Bhupinder Yadav and G Kishan Reddy besides several other party leaders from the state.
Yadav accused the K Chandrasekhar Rao government in the state of floating the gimmick of reservation for minorities while doing no good for any section of society. This shows that the state government does only minorities' politics, he said.
He claimed that people will not only elect the BJP candidate in the upcoming Munugode assembly bypoll but will also bring the party to power in the next assembly elections. The state government's welfare schemes for Dalits and backwards are confined to advertisements while it is also disrupting the Centre's pro-people measures, he alleged.
Yadav accused the Telangana government of trying to hamper the yatra of state BJP president Bandi Sanjay Kumar in an undemocratic manner. This is not only a corrupt government but also dictatorial, he alleged, targeting the TRS.