Hyderabad: Senior Adilabad district Congress leader and former NSUI president Bhargav Deshpande joined the BRS on Sunday. He joined the party at a programme held at the Hyderabad residence of BRS working president KTR. KTR draped a pink scarf around him and welcomed him into the party.
According to the BRS, joinings into the party are continuing. The party said leaders and workers from the Congress and the BJP are joining voluntarily. It said they are doing so after seeing how the BRS is fighting for the people.
Former minister and MLA Vemula Prashanth Reddy, former minister Jogu Ramanna and MLC Pochampally Srinivas Reddy attended the programme. MLAs Kova Laxmi and Anil Jadhav and former MLA Balka Suman also took part. Khanapur constituency in-charge Johnson Naik and others were also present.
Bhargav Deshpande targets Congress leadership
Deshpande alleged that leaders with TDP, RSS and BJP ideologies control the Telangana Congress. He said he has been in the Congress since 2006. However, he said the present Congress is not the party it was then.
Further, Bhargav Deshpande alleged that Uttam Kumar Reddy, Bhatti Vikramarka and Sridhar Babu have completely surrendered to Revanth Reddy. He also said governance in Telangana runs completely contrary to what Rahul Gandhi says in Delhi.
Deshpande questioned why, if the Congress came to power only because of Revanth Reddy, he did not bring the TDP to power. Besides, he alleged that nobody except four or five people around Revanth Reddy has benefited under this government.
He said this is not the original Congress but a Telugu Desam and RSS Congress. He also raised the slogan “Leave Congress, save Telangana”.