Srilatha and Shobhan Reddy had called on Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy on February 13…reports Asian Lite News
In a setback to opposition Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) in Telangana, Deputy Mayor of Greater Hyderabad M. Srilatha and her husband and BRS Trade Union Chairman Shobhan Reddy joined the Congress on Sunday.
The couple formally joined the Congress at the party’s state headquarters Gandhi Bhavan.
Congress in-charge for Telangana Deepa Dasmunsi welcomed Srilatha and Shobhan Reddy into the party.
The couple alleged that the leaders who participated in the Telangana movement were not getting due recognition in BRS.
Transport Minister Ponnam Prabhakar told media persons that unable to bear insults, BRS leaders are joining Congress. He assured that every leader joining Congress will be given due position in the party.
Srilatha and Shobhan Reddy had called on Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy on February 13.
Shobhan Reddy is said to be keen to contest the coming Lok Sabha elections on Congress ticket from Secunderabad constituency. Srilatha is the second BRS leader from Hyderabad to join Congress this month.
Former Mayor of Greater Hyderabad Bonthu Rammohan had joined the party a few days ago. He is expecting Congress ticket from Malkajgiri Lok Sabha constituency in the forthcoming elections.
Earlier, BRS corporator and former Deputy Mayor Baba Fasihuddin joined the Congress party.
Rammohan and Fasihuddin were Mayor and Deputy Mayor respectively from 2016 to 2021. Their joining is likely to strengthen the Congress n Greater Hyderabad as it drew a blank in the region in the recent Assembly elections.
Kavitha urges CBI to withdraw notice
Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) leader K. Kavitha has told the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) that she will not be able to appear before it in the Delhi excise policy case and requested it to revoke or withdraw the notice.
She wrote to the central agency that it had issued fresh notice by invoking Section 41A CrPC came while not “being aware or conscious of the earlier notice sent under Section 160 CrPC”.
A day before she was directed to appear before the agency, Kavitha requested the CBI to keep the notice in abeyance in view of her engagements in the run-up to Parliamentary elections.
“In the light of my pressing onerous engagements coupled with my commitment to the people of my state and taking into consideration the necessity of my personal presence in my state while the parliamentary elections are underway, your good self may consider keeping such notice in abeyance,” wrote Kavitha, a member of the Telangana Legislative Council.
“I may also beseech your good self to consider the entire matter with objective understanding and appreciation regarding my onerous engagements, duties and responsibilities towards the people of my state with whom I am scheduled to attend several one to one personal meetings in the next about 6 weeks or so spread over different districts in the state thereby rendering me practically incapable of appearing before you in person on 26.2.2024,” reads the letter by Kavitha, daughter of BRS President and former Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao.
The former MP, however, conveyed to the central agency that if it required her to answer any queries or questions or to seek any information from her, she shall be always available to appear through any virtual mode.