According to sources days after waging a revolt against Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) party leadership for denying the party ticket for her, sitting MLA (former) from Warangal East, Konda Surekha yesterday quit the party and had joined the Congress after meeting party President Rahul Gandhi. Meanwhile Surekha, MLC Konda Muralidhar Rao and former Adilabad MP Rathod Ramesh, who had recently quit the TRS to join the Congress, met Rahul Gandhi, along with Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) Chief Uttam Kumar Reddy and former TPCC Chief Ponnala Lakshmaiah yesterday.
Meanwhile in a last resort to reach out to caretaker Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao (KCR) and caretaker IT minister K Taraka Rama Rao (KTR), she had asked for an explanation from the TRS leadership on the reason for being denied the ticket while speaking at a press conference in Hyderabad yesterday.
Moreover she warned "KTR said that he would retire
from politics if TRS loses in the upcoming elections and he should be
ready for that because the TRS would not return to power in Telangana”.
Furthermore when late YS Rajasekhara Reddy served as the Chief Minister,
Surekha worked as the Women and Child Welfare Minister. In 2011, she joined the
YSR Congress party in support of the party Chief YE Jaganmohan Reddy.
