Congress candidate from Puthalapattu Assembly constituency (SC) M.S. Babu, who switched his loyalty to the party from the YSRCP recently, has said that the Dalits and minorities are coming back to the fold of the Congress, having realised that the BJP rule will be “detrimental to their safety”.
During a door-to-door campaign in the Irarla mandal headquarters on May 10 (Friday), Mr. Babu said that the Dalits and minorities were impoverished without opportunities for employment and empowerment during the YSRCP rule. “The welfare corporations set up for them were defunct under the TDP and the YSRCP regime,” he alleged.
Around 200 families from Irala and Yadamarri mandals joined the Congress in the presence of Mr. Babu in Chittoor on May 10 (Friday).
