1. Janardhana Reddy rejoins BJP, merges his KRPP with saffron party
Mining baron and Gangavathi MLA G. Janardhana Reddy on March 25 merged his Kalyana Rajya Pragathi Paksha with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and formally rejoined the saffron party along with his wife Aruna Lakshmi and other followers. Calling the merger purely “non-conditional”, Mr. Reddy said asserted that he would function as an ordinary worker.
Though Mr. Reddy had formally quit the BJP by floating his own political outfit in December 2022 ahead of the previous Assembly elections, in reality he had disassociated with the BJP for more than a decade ever since the legal issues related to mining had impacted his political position as well as relations.
