The former MLA from Wardhannapet then went to meet the BRS supremo at his Banjara Hills supremo. Grilled at the entrance of KCR’s residence by media persons, he mumbled he was with the BRS.
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During a street brawl with the workers of the BRS, BJP supporters accused BRS leaders of kidnapping Aroori Ramesh, a former BRS member. They alleged that they were taking him to Hyderabad to meet party chief K Chandrasekhar Rao.
Earlier on Tuesday, Ramesh, a ticket aspirant for the Warangal MP seat, reserved for the SCs, met Union Home Minister Amit Shah during his visit to Hyderabad. Today, he called a press conference at his residence to announce his decision to join the BJP when former minister and BRS leader Erabelli Dayakar Rao landed at his residence unannounced and convinced him to meet party chief KCR at Hyderabad.
Ramesh happens to be a classmate of T Harish Rao. While they were on their way to Hyderabad, BJP workers waylaid their car, claiming that Aroori Ramesh was being kidnapped by the BRS leaders. They dragged him out physically and tore his shirt in the melee till BJP state president G Kishan Reddy called up to say that no one was kidnapping him.
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The former MLA from Wardhannapet then went to meet the BRS supremo at his Banjara Hills supremo. Grilled at the entrance of KCR’s residence by media persons, he mumbled he was with the BRS.
It is not only Aroori Ramesh, another key leader and MLA from Station Ghanpur but Kadiam Srihari is also said to be negotiating with the Congress to jump ship. He is another aspirant for the Warangal MP seat and may make way for his daughter Kadiyam Kavya at the Ghanpur Assembly seat. Srihari was a trusted aide of KCR who had been the deputy chief minister in the first BRS government in Telangana.
Ever since the BRS lost power in Telangana, both the Congress and the BJP have been poaching its leaders, particularly in areas where the parties do not have strong leaders.
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