Telugu Desam Party suffered yet another major setback in Telangana region with two of its senior most leaders and legislators in the region quitting the party and announcing their decisions to join the ruling Telangana Rashtriya Samiti.
Talasani Srinivas Yadav and Teegala Krishna Reddy, both MlAs from Hyderabad met the Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao at his official residence on Thursday. later they told the media that they would very soon formally join the TRS.
“We have decided to join the TRS to achieve Goldem Telangana”, Srinivas Yadav said.
Apart from these two, two other legislators Prakash Goud and Dharma Reddy and MlC Gangadhar were also likely to quit TDP and join the TRS in the next few days. But the Telangana TDP president l Ramanna denied the reports of others joining TRS.
Teegala Krishna Reddy held TDP president and Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu responsible for the power crisis in Telangana. He also objected to attempt of Naidu to hand over the TDP’s reigns in Telangana to his son N lokesh.