Congress’s 12 Telangana MLAs join TRS
New Delhi: After winning three of the 17 Lok Sabha seats in Telangana, 12 Congress MLAs were recognised as members of the Telangana Rashtra Samiti by speaker Pocharam Srinivas Reddy, on Thursday. The members had submitted a letter to Reddy seeking merger of their group with a ruling party.
The development leaves Congress with just six MLAs in the 119-member house. The party is set to lose the status of the second largest party in the house with TRS TRS numbers have now gone up from 90 to 102 in the assembly.
Seats were allotted to the 12 MLAs, on Thursday night, along with the members of the TRS legislature party in the house.
The MLAs who have switched sides are Atram Sakku, J Surendar, Sudheer Reddy, Haripriya Naik, R Kantha Rao, G Venkataramana Reddy, Vanama Venkateswar Rao, Rohit Reddy, Upendar Reddy, Ch Lingaiah, Sabita Indra Reddy and Harshavardhan Reddy
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