State BJP congratulates Yediyurappa on being sworn-in as Karnataka CM

Hyderabad: State BJP unit on Friday congratulated Yediyurappa on his swearing-in as Chief Minister of Karnataka after the fall of the Congress-JD (S) government.

BJP State chief spokesperson Krishna Saagar Rao said that the BJP Telangana welcomed and congratulated Yediyurappa. Reacting to the statements of Congress MP A Revanth Reddy, he said it highlighted the desperation of his party which had lost its relevance in the State.

The Congress has been losing its top leadership to the BJP in Telangana State for two months and there is still a long line of Congress leaders who are willing to desert Congress sooner than later.

He questioned Revanth Reddy as to how a national party without a national president can be taken as a serious political entity, "leave alone an alternative to TRS in Telangana."

"Congress is a headless organisation for the last 55 days and we have here an MP making heroic statements on his party being alive in Telangana State," he added.

Further, there are many non-NDA parties which had supported the bills that the NDA had moved in Parliament recently. However, that would not mean "we are friends with those parties. TRS is our primary opposition in Telangana State and we consider the Congress as an irrelevant player.," he pointed out.

He also challenged the Congress MP to answer as to why the Congress party was not fighting on people's issues in the State, either inside or outside Assembly.

"Have they given up the role of the primary opposition? It is BJP which is taking up people's cause and fighting for their rights across the State, while the Congress MLA's are busy defecting to TRS in hordes," he said.