The Congress in Telangana has decided to approach the Governor E S L Narasimhan to complain against the TRS government after nine of its MLAs announced their decision to join the State's governing party since the beginning of this month.
CLP leader Bhatti Vikramarka Mallu said a Congress delegation, which would comprise among others former Law Minister M Veerappa Moily, would urge the Governor at tomorrow's meeting at Raj Bhavan to 'come to the rescue of the Constitution and democracy.'
"Congress cadre has become more active and vigorous," he told PTI Friday, rejecting suggestions that the party workers have been demoralised after the string of defections ahead of the April 11 Lok Sabha elections.
The Congress won 19 seats in the 119-member Assembly in the elections in December last year which saw the ruling TRS returning to power with 88 seats.
K Kavitha, Nizamabad Lok Sabha member and daughter of TRS president and Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao, hinted a few days ago that two-thirds of Congress MLAs are likely to join her party.
"The way the state is progressing, many senior Congress party leaders and various people from the TDP, they all want to join the TRS."
"And when the number is more than two-third (of total strength), we have been encouraging them (to defect). Otherwise, single MLA... we are not encouraging the defections," Kavitha had said.
The Congress has alleged that the chief minister was "conspiring to eliminate the opposition as he lacked courage to answer their questions."
In the chief minister's first term (2014-2018), 12 of the total 15 TDP MLAs had joined the TRS.
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