Former Andhra CM Kiran Kumar Reddy rejoins Congress
New Delhi, July 13 (IBNS): Former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N.Kiran Kumar Reddy on Friday formally rejoined Congress party after meeting Congress president Rahul Gandhi in New Delhi.
“I am very happy that I am coming back to the Congress family,” said Reddy, who had represented the party for four terms in the undivided Andhra Pradesh Assembly.
Reddy was the last Chief Minister of united Andhra Pradesh before the state was bifurcated in 2014.
The same year he resigned from the party in protest against the bifurcation of the state.
He floated his own party Jai Samaikyandhra Party and contested elections unsuccessfully.
According to media reports, senior Congress leader and Rajya Sabha MP T Subbirami Reddy visited Kiran Kumar Reddy at his residence on Wednesday, asking him to rejoin the party.
The meeting came after another leader, Palem Raju, had also met Kiran Kumar requesting him to rejoin the Congress.
Andhra Pradesh goes to polls this year.
“Whatever identity I have got, it is because of Congress,” Reddy said recalling his family’s association with the party.
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