BRS leaders Krishna Yadav and Chittaranjan Das join BJP

Two BRS senior leaders, C Krishna Yadav and J Chittaranjan Das, who were ministers in the erstwhile Andhra Pradesh, quit the party and joined the BJP in Hyderabad on Saturday, 30 September.

This comes after sitting BRS MLA Mynampally Hanumantha Rao and his son Rohit joined the Congress.

Yadav and Das joined the BJP in the presence of Union Tourism Minister and Telangana BJP state president G Kishan Reddy, MLA Etala Rajender, and other senior leaders at the party’s state headquarters in Nampally.Apart from the two former ministers, Sirpur ZPTC Rekha Satyanarayana, Bandala Satyanarayana, a few sarpanches and MPTCs joined the BJP.

Political career of  Krishna Yadav

Yadav was a minister during the TDP rule in the united Andhra Pradesh from 1999 to 2001.He also served as the government whip in Andhra Pradesh in 1995.

He was first elected as an MLA in 1994.While working as a newspaper delivery boy, Yadav entered politics and became a corporator of the then Municipal Corporation of Hyderabad from 1986 to 1991.

However, Yadav was arrested in September 2003 by the Maharashtra police for his alleged involvement in a multi-crore stamp paper scam.In December 2006, Yadav was released from the Yerwada prison in Pune.

While in 2007, a court in Pune revoked the provisions of the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act, invoked against him.In November 2012, Yadav rejoined the TDP after staying away from the party for several years.After the formation of Telangana state, he joined the BRS.After the TDP returned to power in 1999, Yadav, became the Labour Minister in N Chandrababu Naidu’s cabinet.He was in the cabinet till 2001.He won the Himayathnagar Assembly constituency in 1994 and 1999.

Chittaranjan Das defeated mighty NTR

Former Congress Minister Chittaranjan Das defeated the TDP founder and former chief minister, late NT Rama Rao, by a margin of 3,568 votes in the 1989 elections.Das was elected from the same Kalwakurthy constituency in the 1985 elections too.He was a minister during the Congress regime.He decided to join the BJP after the BRS denied him a ticket to contest the upcoming Assembly elections.