The Congress intensified its efforts to rope in former Minister Tummala Nageswara Rao, who was sulking over being denied the ruling BRS ticket from the Palair Assembly constituency.
TPCC campaign committee co-convenor and former Khammam MP Ponguleti Srinivas Reddy called on Mr. Nageshwara Rao at his residence here on Saturday.
Mr. Reddy had invited the former minister to join the Congress to trounce the ruling BRS in the upcoming Assembly elections, party sources said.