Telangana Jana Samithi floated by former Osmania University professor and protagonist of the separate Telangana movement Prof M Kodandaram has become virtually a defunct organization these days.
Except occasional appearances in public platforms, Kodandaram has not come out with any action plan to strengthen his party or rejuvenate the cadre.
The party which made a big blunder by joining hands with the Congress and the Telugu Desam Party in the last assembly elections, has no plans whatsoever to contest any elections, including the forthcoming municipal elections.
As a result, Kodandaram’s associates have started looking up to other parties for survival.
On Tuesday, his close associate Rajender Reddy, who was heading the TJS Mahabubnagar unit, quit the party and joined the Telangana Rashtra Samithi in the presence of Excise and Tourism Minister V Srinivas Goud.
He said that the TJS party had been slowly becoming redundant as the people of the State were giving full support to TRS impressed by the both welfare and development projects taken up by the K Chandrasekhar Rao government.
“The people have now realised that it is only the TRS which has the will to convert the state into a golden Telangana,” he said.
Srinivas Goud said the opposing parties were not acting in a responsible manner and coming out with constructive suggestions to help the government in taking up the development projects in a big way.
“But all these years, these parties are becoming stumbling blocks in the way of development," he alleged.
Along with Rajender Reddy, many TJS leaders in the district joined the TRS.