The last few months had been the time in Andhra Pradesh that several legislators had quit their party to join Jagan Mohan Reddy’s YSRCP.
Now, adding to that row on Thursday, Former MLA and film actress Jayasudha, joined the YSRCP by meeting the Party Chief Jagan Mohan Reddy at his Lotus Pond residence.
Jayasudha said, “It is like returning to home. YSRC will win the upcoming Andhra elections. I am not going to contest in the coming election and will abide by the orders of the party president”
Previously, Jayasudha contested on Congress’s ticket and won the elections in 2009 from Secuderabad, becoming the MLA.
In the year 2016, Jayasudha joined the TDP (Telugu Desam Party).
Also, sources said that other TDP leaders like J C Diwkar Reddy from Anantapur and senior party leader Dadi Veerabhadra Rao are also considering to join the YSRCP.
TDP legislator and Guntur West MLA Modugla Venugopala Reddy submitted his resignation, to the Andra Pradesh Assembly Speaker, on Tuesday.
Telugu Desam Party MLA Modugula Venugopala Reddy tenders his resignation to Andhra Pradesh assembly speaker Kodela Siva Prasada Rao and TDP National President N Chandra Babu Naidu pic.twitter.com/gCzxKLBVns
— ANI (@ANI) March 5, 2019
Previously , many leaders including Pandula Ravindra Babu, Amalapuram MP, Chirala MLA Amanchi Krishna, Anakapalle MP, M Srinivas Rao and leaders like former MLA, Challa Ramakrishna Reddy, amongst many others, joined the YSRCP.
Also, the YSRCP had won 67 seats out of 175 seats in the 2014 assembly elections. However, the TDP-BJP alliance formed the government by winning the majority and it resulted in 23 MLAs being defected to the TDP.
Sandra Venkat Veeraiah, a former legislature of the TDP (Telugu Desam Party) on Sunday switched his loyalty to the TRS (Telangana Rashtra Samiti) of KCR.