Former Minister E Peddi Reddy, who recently quit the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), joined the ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) party on Friday ahead of the bypoll to Huzurabad Assembly constituency in Telangana. TRS president and Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao were present when Peddi Reddy joined the party at an event in the TRS office here. Rajender had quit the TRS and the post of MLA after being removed from the State cabinet over allegations of land-grabbing which he had denied before joining the BJP. Peddi Reddy had represented Huzurabad in the Legislative Assembly and served as a Minister during the TDP regime in undivided Andhra Pradesh. Recently, P Kaushik Reddy, who was the Congress candidate in Huzurabad in the 2018 Telangana assembly polls, joined the TRS.

Source: Indian Express July 31, 2021 04:38 UTC