Former Indian cricket captain Mohd Azharuddin is all set to quit Congress and join TRS after Sankranthi.
Azharuddin is learnt to be in touch with TRS chief and Telangana CM K Chandrasekhar Rao and his son K T Rama Rao and expressed willingness to join TRS anytime after Sankranthi in the third week of January.
Interestingly, its MIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi, a close friend of KCR, who recommended KCR to take Azhar into TRS.
Owaisi also recommended KCR to give Secunderabad Lok Sabha seat to Azhar in the upcoming Lok Sabha polls in April 2019.
Azhar, who has been appointed as Telangana Congress working president before recent Assembly polls, has expressed his desire to contest from Secunderabad Lok Sabha seat as Congress candidate in 2019.
However, former Congress MP from Secunderabad Anjan Kumar Yadav, who won twice from this seat in 2004 and 2009 but lost in 2014, refused to vacate the seat to Azhar.
Anjan Kumar Yadav and his supporters created ruckus in Gandhi Bhavan after Azhar said he will contest from Secunderabad in 2019.
They demanded Congress high command not to give ticket to Azhar. Upset with this, Azhar has been looking at other parties to secure Secunderabad ticket.
In this backdrop, Azhar attended the wedding of Owaisi' daughter in city three days ago. CM KCR, KTR and Kavitha were also present in the wedding.
On this occasion, Asad is learnt to have recommended KCR to take Azhar into TRS to which KCR readily agreed.
Azhar joined Congress in 2009 and got elected to Lok Sabha from Moradabad in Uttar Pradesh.
He did not contest 2014 elections and confined to Telangana since then.