D Srinivas Back In Congress, Along With Son

Veteran politician and former TRS Rajya Sabha MP Dharmapuri Srinivas on Sunday rejoined the Congress, along with his son Sanjay.

Sanjay, who was the Mayor of Nizamabad, and was also in the BRS, too joined the Grand Old Party along with his father.

Both the leaders were welcomed into Congress by AICC general secretary and Congress Telangana affairs in-charge Manikrao Thakre, Telangana Congress chief Revanth Reddy and other leaders.

Srinivas returned to the Congress fold nearly nine years after he had quit the party.

Speaking on the occasion, the veteran politician, who came to the party office in a wheelchair, said that he was happy to return.

The senior leader had played a key role in bringing back Congress into power in 2004 and 2009. He switched loyalties to the then Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) after it formed the first government of Telangana in 2014, and was rewarded with the post of a special advisor to the government, and later in 2016 made Rajya Sabha member.

However, on the eve of 2019 Lok Sabha elections, he faced allegations of anti-party activities. Since then he had been staying away from the TRS (now BRS), and has remained politically inactive.

His other son D Arvind is the sitting BJP MP from Nizamabad.