TDP MLAs Gopinath, Arikepudi meet KCR

Hyderabad: TDP MLAs Maganti Gopinath Reddy and Arikepudi Gandhi met Telangana Chief Minister and TRS chief K. Chandrashekhar Rao at his camp office on Thursday.

Earlier, Maganti Gopinath Reddy and MLA Arikepudi Ghandhi had decided to join TRS and also petitioned Telangana Legislative Assembly Speaker Madhusudhana Chary seeking their recognition as ruling TRS party members in the House. Earlier, Telangana TDP had suspended MLAs Gopinath and Gandhi from the party under the disciplinary action.

With the joining of these two more TDP MLAs into TRS, Telangana-TDP remains with its TDLP leader Revanth Reddy, LB Nagar MLA R.Krishnaiah and Sathupalli MLA Sandra Venkata Veeraiah. Earlier, 10 victorious TDP MLAs had crossed over to ruling TRS recently.