‘KCR Brought BRS' Downfall’: Telangana MLA Says Pink Party To Merge With Congress Amid Defection Row

Amid speculation that Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) leaders visited New Delhi recently to strategise with the BJP, Congress MLA Danam Nagender said on Friday that the ‘pink party’ will be merged with Congress soon.

“The BRS is going to see a split within the party, and the majority of leaders will join the Congress. Only a handful of leaders will stay back,” Nagender’s said after a programme in Khairatabad.

The BRS has seen a steady defection to the Congress after the latter came to power last December.

Nagender has been in the eye of storm after he won Khairatabad seat on the BRS ticket but later joined the Congress. He was also the Congress Lok Sabha candidate from Secunderabad. After Nagender left their party, BRS had approached Telangana Legislative Assembly Speaker, Gaddam Prasad Kumar, to disqualify him. Former minister KT Rama Rao has been protesting against the defections and have called them unconstitutional.

Lashing out at the BRS, Nagender said the party runs like a corporate. “Even the MLAs can’t get to meet K Chandrasekhar Rao. They did not have any value or respect. It was KCR’s style of functioning which brought the party’s downfall. His arrogance and inaccessibility alienated him from elected representatives and the public. However, the case is opposite in the Congress. We enjoy a lot of freedom and we are valued. This is why, everyone is making a beeline to join the grand old party,” Nagender said.

He also accused the BRS leaders of indulging in corruption to the tune of crores of rupees.

BRS leaders KTR and Harish Rao were in Delhi recently to expose the “unethical” practices of the Congress. “The Congress mourns party defections in Goa, Karnataka, Maharashtra and Haryana. However, in Telangana, they do not hesitate to induct BRS leaders. Where is their ethics? On the one hand, they claim that they are protecting the Constitution. On the other hand, they are acting in a way that insults the book,” KTR had said.

However, some reports have claimed that they were in Delhi to engineer a merger with the BJP and find a way to get their leader, K Kavitha, out of prison.