Hyderabad, April 9 Senior Congress leader T Jeevan Reddy, who recently left the party, announced on Thursday that he would join the BRS.
Reddy, a former minister, made the announcement after BRS Working President K T Rama Rao invited him to join the party.
Rao met Reddy at his residence in Jagtial, the district headquarters town.
"I have already said that I will join BRS," Reddy told reporters. He also said he would meet BRS president K Chandrasekhar Rao soon.
Criticizing the incumbent Congress government, he alleged that the current regime is moving in a regressive direction.
In response to Reddy's criticism, state Congress president B Mahesh Kumar Goud said that Congress had given Reddy numerous opportunities, including fielding him in elections, over the past several decades.
Reddy, who had been a Congress leader for about four decades, recently quit the party, expressing his anguish over the insults he had received at the behest of "defectors" from other parties.
His reference to "defectors" refers to BRS MLA Sanjay Kumar, who defeated him in Jagtial in the 2023 Assembly elections, and who has been working closely with the Congress since then.
Although BRS had submitted a petition to disqualify Kumar for switching allegiances, the Assembly Speaker dismissed it.