As the elections to the Telangana assembly are fast approaching, defection of leaders from one party to another have started picking up pace.
According to latest reports, senior parliament member from Nagarkurnool constituency in the same district Pothuganti Ramulu is all set to defect from Bharat Rashtra Samithi into the Congress.
A three-time MLA from Achampet assembly constituency on Telugu Desam Party ticket, he served as a minister for youth and sports affairs in the Chandrababu Naidu cabinet between 1999 and 2004.
After losing the assembly elections on the TDP ticket post bifurcation of the combined Andhra Pradesh in 2014, Ramulu defected to the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (then TRS) in 2016.
In 2019, he was given the MP ticket from Nagarkurnool parliamentary constituency by the BRS leadership and he won the seat. However, he has been feeling neglected in the party due to the dominance of local MLA Guvvala Balaraju.
Sources said sensing Ramulu’s disgruntlement, the Sunil Kanugolu team contacted him and is trying to rope him into the Congress party.
He is said to be asking for the MLA ticket from Achampet. If this works out, he may soon call it quits to the BRS and take a plunge into the Congress.