BRS Rajya Sabha MP K Keshav Rao Returns to Congress

New Delhi: After a gap of 11 years, BRS Rajya Sabha MP K Keshav Rao, who was a close associate of BRS chief K Chandrasekhar Rao, rejoined the Congress.

He had left the Congress in 2013 during the Telangana movement.

His daughter and Hyderabad Mayor G Vijayalakshmi had already joined the Congress in March this year.

Rao was welcomed to the Congress by party president Mallikarjun Kharge, Leader of the Opposition Rahul Gandhi as well as Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy in New Delhi.

“Worthy homecoming… We are confident that his vast experience in public service will strengthen the Congress party in Telangana,” wrote Kharge on ‘X’.

Keshav Rao had served as the state Congress president of unified Andhra Pradesh when YS Rajasekhar Reddy was the chief minister.

In the BRS, he was a close confidante of KCR and was inducted in the Polit Bureau. Rao still has two more years of tenure in Rajya Sabha. Congress is likely to renominate him. Apart from Rao six BRS MLAs have also joined the Congress.