Two-third of Cong MLAs likely to join TRS, hints K Kavitha

A key TRS leader hinted on Monday that two-third of Congress MLAs in Telangana are likely to join the ruling party in the state.

Since the beginning of this month, eight of the total of 19 Congress MLAs have announced their decision to join the Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS), led by Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao.

The development, which comes close to the Lok Sabha elections in Telangana, has set in a sense of despondency in the Congress.

On accusations that the TRS is engineering defections, Nizamabad Lok Sabha member Kalvakuntla Kavitha, an influential party leader and daughter of the chief minister, said, "The way the state is progressing, many senior Congress party leaders and various people from the TDP, they all want to join the TRS."